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What's New? Remembering Sol Boskind: Elder Services Pioneer and Leader 
4/6/2004 - Sol S. Boskind was a pioneer in the field of aging services in Massachusetts. He was a nationally certified social worker who worked as social worker for 48 years. He was chief administrator of various social service agencies for 34 years, including 22 years in aging agencies. Since 1963, when he helped found the Age Center of Worcester, he pioneered a number of programs for the elderly. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to several of the early White House Conferences on Aging. He served on the Professional Task Force for the creation of the Massachusetts Department of Elder Affairs. Mr. Boskind founded Elder Home Care Services of Worcester as a project of the Age Center in 1972. Within a year, Elder Home Care (now Elder Services of Worcester Area) became a separate organization, one of the original Home Care Corporations in Massachusetts. Massachusetts was a national leader in developing community based long-term care. He was a strong and articulate advocate for community based services with the National Council on Aging and within Massachusetts.
In 1994, nine years after Sol had retired from Elder Services of Worcester Area, spoke at their annual meeting. He was proud of creating the first By-laws to govern local Home Care corporate actions and the model personnel practices for home care system. He initiated the crisis intervention services that received one of three national demonstration grants to study elder abuse. He was especially proud of the Consortium Gerontology Studies Program of which he was one of the original committee members. Sol was very committed to bringing college graduates into the field of aging through course work and internships in the community. Sol felt that Elder Home Care had an obligation to provide educational opportunities in aging to students through agency internships and to employees through weekly In-Service education sessions. Sol said the success of the home care system in Massachusetts was due to political education, good professional guidance, a great deal of trial and error, quite a bit of luck and an extraordinary amount of chutzpa. His two greatest strengths were advocacy and bringing community leaders together for problem solving. Back to What's New?
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