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The Recorder - Nine area towns admitted to AARP's 'age-friendly' community network


Nine area towns admitted to AARP’s ‘age-friendly’ community network
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Members of the Age-Friendly Steering Committee and LifePath’s Age-Friendly Project Team with the official certificate designating Franklin County and the North Quabbin region as an Age-Friendly Community. Back row, left to right: Christina Johnson, director of the South County Senior Center; Barbara Bodzin, executive director of LifePath; and Carol Foote, development and outreach director with LifePath. Front row, left to right: Lynne Feldman, director of community services with LifePath; and Nour Elkhattaby Strauch, LifePath’s Age-Friendly Program manager. Contributed Photo
Published: 7/7/2021 5:37:17 PM
Nine towns throughout Franklin County and the North Quabbin region were admitted to AARP’s Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities during a virtual ceremony Tuesday afternoon. ....

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The Recorder - My Turn: Next pandemic will we treat the homebound better?


My Turn: Next pandemic will we treat the homebound better?
AL NORMAN
Published: 6/9/2021 1:13:10 PM
Massachusetts began administering COVID-19 vaccines on Dec. 15, 2020. One hundred four days later, on March 29, Gov. Charles Baker announced the launch of a new “Homebound Vaccine Program.” By that point in time, the commonwealth had already administered 3,409,635 doses of vaccine to the public. The Homebound Program was clearly not as high a priority as reaching patients in nursing facilities, where COVID fatalities were a daily headline. As a result, homebound elderly and disabled people waited three and a half months to get their turn at a shot. Some of these people had as many as three or four home health aides, visiting nurses, or physical therapists, coming into their homes daily any of these workers were potential COVID​​​​​​​ spreaders. In-home COVID testing was also not widely available. ....

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