Catholic Senior Services

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What is CSS?

CSS coordinates senior the archdiocese, affiliates and parishes to foster initiatives in four areas:

Home and Community Based Services
Parish Based Housing
Parish Programming
Catholic Identity and Character

These four areas of focus constitute the four strategic imperatives of CSS. The Catholic identity and character of our mission animates all that we do. Increased opportunities, services and efficiencies flow to and from these initiatives.

Bishop Lee Piche, chair of the CSS board, stated, “The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has a deep interest in these initiatives, and, through CSS, hopes to provide better communication and cooperation between the various agencies so as to connect our seniors to the services they need more effectively and to assist our parishes in finding new ways to minister to our seniors.”

CSS Affiliated Catholic Senior Care Providers:

Benedictine Health System
New Brighton, Minneapolis, Red Wing, St. Paul, Shakopee, Osseo
651-259-6118
www.bhshealth.org

Catholic Eldercare
Minneapolis
612-379-3170
www.catholiceldercare.org

Franciscan Health Community
St. Paul
651-646-2797
www.franciscancare.org

Little Sisters of the Poor
St. Paul
651-227-0336
www.littlesistersofthepoorstpaul.org

Regina Medical Center’s Senior Living
Hastings
651-480-4333
www.reginamedical.org

St. Therese of New Hope
New Hope, Brooklyn Pk, Shoreview
763-531-5400
www.sttheresenh.org

St. Therese Southwest
Hopkins, Minnetonka
952-933-3333
www.sttheresesouthwest.com

CSS Mission

The mission of CSS is rooted in the mission of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, to affirm the profound dignity and value of all human persons. We believe human life must be respected from conception to natural death.

We respond to the example of Christ, the Servant of all, in our mission in serving the needs of seniors in both body and soul. This means fullest access of seniors to the sacraments and pastoral care, as well as the highest quality health care.

We are committed to the Church’s preferential love for the poor. We help the underserved with compassion and responsible stewardship.

Embracing our common Catholic identity, CSS coordinates and connects seniors to parish-integrated Catholic senior care, housing and services throughout the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in communion with the Archbishop.

CSS connects seniors to Catholic services in care of body and soul.

Why CSS?

Minnesotans rank the need for senior care in the top three overall societal issues.
By 2030, 1 in 4 Minnesotans will be age 65 or older, double the current number.
The number of individuals age 85 and over will triple.
28% of the metropolitan area’s population is Catholic. Catholic seniors will need approximately 11,000 units of senior housing and services.
An estimated one-third of baby boom seniors will not have adequate financial resources for retirement.
Another one-third will be living in poverty.
At least half of all Twin Cities senior households will not be able to afford the housing they require.
Dramatic Increases in Americans with Alzheimer’s Disease is Projected.
The Need for Long-Term Care will Triple by 2050.
Family care giving is dropping dramatically ; Ratio of Caregivers to Older Adults dropping.
3.6% of 85+ population is divorced compared to 50% of the 50 – 54 year olds. Adult children from divorced families are less like to provide caregiving support to the non-custodial parent. According to the Minnesota State Demographic Center:
This year, 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65 and the trend will continue for the next 20 years.
By the end of this decade, there will be as many people 65 and older as there are children in K-12 schools.

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Pope: "Seniors a Blessing for Society"

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Cardinal Burke: Suffering Does Not Rid Life of Purpose

At a Kansas City conference on end-of-life care, Cardinal Raymond Burke said that suffering does not cause a person to have less meaning in his life, nor does it give the government the right to decide if that person should live or die. “No matter how much a life is diminished, no matter what suffering the person is undergoing, that life demands the greatest respect and care,” Cardinal Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, told CNA.
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Cardinal O'Malley Speaks Out Against Proposed Euthanasia Law

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Vatican Stresses Dignity of Elderly In Reaction to UN Report

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St. Therese at St. Odilia's Thriving

St. Therese of New Hope, Franciscan Health Community, St. Odilia's parish and CSS have collaborated to remodel a building on parish land into an 8 unit facility providing palliative and hospice care to seniors.
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US Bishops Approve Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide

Taking on the issue of physician-assisted suicide in the state where voters most recently approved it, the U.S. bishops declared suicide "a terrible tragedy, one that a compassionate society should work to prevent."
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Little Sisters of the Poor Affiliate with CSS, Growing Affiliation to Seven

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The Board of Directors of Catholic Senior Services has approved the addition of Regina Senior Living of Hastings, Minnesota as its newest affiliate member.
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Benedictine Health System Joining CSS Affiliation

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Bishop Piche Welcomes Benedictine Health System To CSS

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