MARQUETTE — More than 6 million Americans are currently living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. That number is expected to more than double to 13 million by 2050. As defined by the Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that ...
LANSING — Suicide rates in Michigan were on a constant increase until 2019 when the numbers started to decline. In 2019, numbers dropped by 5%, then again last year by 13%. But even with the decline, the numbers from 2020 still show a dramatic 33% increase from 2000. Brian Ahmedani of Brighton, a co-chair of the state Suicide Prevention Commission, and a researcher for the Henry Ford Health System, said may of 2020’s events would have made people expect an increase in suicides because factors such as social isolation and unemployment normally increase the risk of suicide. ...
CINCINNATI — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of the vaccines that will prevent it have surfaced haunting memories for Americans who lived through an earlier time when the country was swept by a virus that, for so long, appeared to have no cure or way to prevent it. They were children then. They had friends or classmates who became wheelchair-bound or dragged legs with braces. Some went to hospitals to use iron lungs they needed to breathe. Some never came home. Now they are older adults. Again, they find themselves in what has been one of the hardest-hit age groups, just ...
LOS ANGELES — Johnny Gilbert, who decided to stick with “Jeopardy!” after Alex Trebek’s death, faced the wrenching question once again as production for next season neared. This time it would mean adjusting to the quiz show’s yet-to-be-named host, as opposed to the succession of ...
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Terry Colli and three other residents of the John Knox Village senior community got a trip via computer to the International Space Station in the kickoff to a Stanford University study on whether virtual reality can improve the emotional well-being of older people. ...
MARQUETTE — Almost 39 years ago, Attorney General Frank Kelley visited my journalism class at Michigan State University to explain government access laws. Kelley often dropped by news organizations to give tutorials on the Open Meetings and Freedom of Information acts. Such visits garnered ...
