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Category: Aging

Shows the hands of an elderly woman. Pain medication, opioids
Posted inAging

Keep it real, up to date when explaining Omicron to older NC people

by Thomas Goldsmith January 20, 2022January 19, 2022
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Posted inPublic Health

NC Health News’ top ten reader picks in 2021

by Rose Hoban, Anne Blythe, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Thomas Goldsmith, Taylor Knopf and Elizabeth Thompson December 30, 2021December 30, 2021
A little holiday toy in Christmas lights as an illustration of holiday toys.
Posted inAging

NC senior centers use holidays to reunite the lonely, combat continuing peril of COVID

by Thomas Goldsmith December 23, 2021December 23, 2021
Three seniors (a Black woman and two white men) sit around a table with folders of sheet music spread out in front of them
Posted inAging

NC’s perennially popular senior centers eye post-COVID changes, modernized approaches

by Thomas Goldsmith November 30, 2021November 29, 2021
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Posted inState Health Policy

COVID funds beef up health care spending in proposed state budget, which still lacks Medicaid expansion

by Anne Blythe, Rose Hoban, Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven, Elizabeth Thompson and Thomas Goldsmith November 17, 2021November 19, 2021
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Posted inFeatured

NC Veterans Nursing Home managers get a new contract, profit boost, despite managing homes where COVID deaths took place

by Thomas Goldsmith October 26, 2021October 25, 2021

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