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Miami Dade and Palm Beach are two of the counties in Florida seeing increases in the rates of people 50 and older who are testing positive for HIV. Experts say doctors and patients alike should consider the importance of safe sex education and testing for the virus among older people, too.
Miami Dade and Palm Beach are two of the counties in Florida seeing increases in the rates of people 50 and older who are testing positive for HIV. Experts say doctors and patients alike should consider the importance of safe sex education and testing for the virus among older people, too.
Bringing 2021 into focus
Elizabeth Frederick
Early in January 2021 as we gratefully exited 2020 – which virtually everyone agrees was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, to borrow from Judith Viorst – I ran across an article entitled, “How the Oldest Old Can Endure Even This.”
The New York Times article by John Leland was part of a series started almost six years ago which followed six people age 85 and older. By the start of the pandemic, only one of the individuals, Ruth, was still alive.
Ruth struggles with social isolation, questions why she should go on and takes joy in flowers on her Christmas cactus.