Sale of assisted-living home sends families scrambling to find care
WAPO- Joyce Gantt, 82, had been living at the Landing of Silver Spring for 13 days when management called a meeting to tell residents the assisted-living and memory-care facility would close in 45 days. These situations happen so when “shopping” for care, understand your options and scrutinize your contract.
After her three children died, 85-year-old Mavis Paterson cycled 1,000 miles around Scotland
CNN - Cycling has become more than a habit for “Granny Mave,” as Mavis Paterson is known. It has become essential for her very being, her very reason for living after all three of her adult children passed away within four years of each other – Sandy in 2012, Katie in 2013 and Bob in 2016.
Nothing to do with healthcare. But you will feel good after watching this boy’s reaction as his father explains what Halloween is. Click the image.
CDC: Fewer nursing home residents in South, Southeast up to date on COVID-10 vaccines
McKnight’s - Residents of long-term care communities in the South and Southeast are less likely to be up to date on COVID-19 vaccines, according to a report released Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Meanwhile, older adults accounted for 87.9% deaths from COVID-19 earlier this year, and they made up nearly 63% of COVID-19 cases, according to a report released the same day in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Observation - not surprised especially after reading this Washington Post article.
COVID hospitalizations are still a ‘public health threat’ for America's older adults, says CDC
Fox News - Older adults in the U.S. remain at higher risk of hospitalization due to COVID-19, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Adults age 65 and older accounted for nearly 63% of all COVID-related hospitalizations between January and August 2023, the CDC reported on Friday.
In a majority of those cases, the patients had "multiple underlying conditions," according to the agency’s report.
This Week’s Sponsor - Dollar Flight Club
Dollar Flight Club is offering their Lifetime Membership for $129 (usually $1,690) for the next 24 hours. Lifetime Members get up to 90% off all flights for life! Fly roundtrip to Paris from $320, Hawaii from $197, and more. Get 93% off lifetime or try for free now.
The unseen sexuality of seniors: ‘It’s not over until it’s over’
Inquirer - Now that the nation has met Gerry Turner, the septuagenarian stud and star of ABC’s The Golden Bachelor, the idea of older Americans hooking up is percolating in everyday discourse.
You might not like thinking of grandma going out on the town, but some flames blaze on, constant as a pilot light.
Want to live to a healthy 100? Longevity doctor Peter Attia has advice.
WAPO - Do you want to live to 100? Thanks to modern medicine, you have a decent chance of doing so.
But if you want to live well to 100, physician and best-selling author Peter Attia says you may have some work to do so that your last decade of life — your “marginal decade,” as he calls it — is healthful and rewarding, not limited by disease.
My Husband Is Facing Dementia. Can I Help Him End His Life?
NYT - The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to assist a spouse in the midst of a life-or-death dilemma.
A 104-year-old went viral for skydiving. She died a week later.
WAPO - Last week, a 104-year-old woman looked down about 13,500 feet from an airplane and prepared to jump. When Dorothy Hoffner began her skydive, she embraced the freedom of soaring through the air while marveling at the grassy landscape of Ottawa, Ill.
After Hoffner landed, a crowd of spectators cheered while TV reporters chased her for interviews. She fielded dozens of interview requests in the following days, becoming known nationally for potentially breaking the world record for the oldest person to skydive.
A week after the skydive, which she described as “wonderful,” Hoffner died in her sleep sometime between Sunday night and Monday morning at her Chicago senior living center, according to her close friend Joe Conant. Conant told The Washington Post that Hoffner’s death was unexpected, but he’s glad that she cherished her final days.
Like Music? Like our Pages!
FACEBOOK - TONYC LIVE - https://www.facebook.com/AnthonyCirilloMusic
INSTAGRAM - TONYC LIVE - https://www.instagram.com/tonyclive/Like what you read?