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Tag: seniors

A skilled nursing facility sign is in the foreground and a building is in the background. The facility, A PruittHealth skilled-nursing facility for veterans in Orange County, is dealing with an outbreak of COVID-19, and has a history of poor staffing.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – April 8 – Nursing home outbreak, food banks need help and prisoner lawsuit

by Editor April 8, 2020April 14, 2021
People bring food to a gray car. This is one of the ways that food banks have overhauled their operations to deal with coronavirus.
Posted inInfectious Disease

NC food banks spring into action amid coronavirus crisis

by Carolina Public Press March 31, 2020March 30, 2020
A man is being swabbed inside his nose by a gloved hand.
Posted inInfectious Disease

Coronavirus Today – March 30 – Northampton County nursing home cases, 3-D mask printouts, the ocean on livestream

by Editor March 30, 2020April 14, 2021
shows several empty rocking chairs on a porch
Posted inAging

As guidance on COVID-19 shifts, NC nursing homes and assisted living centers fight for residents’ safety

by Thomas Goldsmith March 14, 2020December 3, 2021
A support group participant for people caring for loved ones with memory loss and dementia
Posted inAging

With dementia at flood tide in NC, person-to-person support groups address problems

by Thomas Goldsmith February 26, 2020February 27, 2020
Millie Veasey stands in the doorway of her home, a smiling man in the doorway looks in. Some programs such as these are not getting as much support because of the budget standoff.
Posted inAging

Some NC senior services left in the dust after budget feud between governor, legislature

by Thomas Goldsmith February 19, 2020February 18, 2020

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