By Thomas Goldsmith The knowledge that 50 friends and neighbors will likely die each year clearly touches a community deeply, even when its residents are past 62 and at different levels of health and activity. Living with certainties of aging like this — statistics bear them out — as well as the sweetness of later […]

Author Archives: Thomas Goldsmith
Thomas Goldsmith worked in daily newspapers for 33 years before joining North Carolina Health News. Goldsmith is a native Tar Heel who attended the UNC-Chapel Hill, and worked at newspapers in Tennessee and at the Raleigh News & Observer.
Goldsmith's specialty is reporting on aging issues and he's won multiple awards for this work.