WASHINGTON — A majority of Americans agree that government should help people fulfill a widely held aspiration to age in their own homes, not institutional settings, a new poll finds. There’s a surprising level of bipartisan agreement on some proposals that could help make that happen, ...
MARQUETTE — Historic things happened in April 1961. The governor of New York, Nelson D. Rockefeller, authorized the building of the World Trade Center, the Bay of Pigs operation took place and in the small town of Ishpeming, David Portale got his first official barber job at Pete’s Barber ...
LANSING — There has been a significant increase in reports of identity theft connected with the COVID-19 pandemic, state officials say. And the Internal Revenue Service is warning taxpayers “to be on the lookout for a surge of calls and email phishing attempts about the coronavirus, or ...
BARCELONA, Spain — Since the coronavirus pandemic struck Spain, a glass pane has separated Xavier Anto and Carmen Panzano for the first prolonged period of the couple’s 65-year marriage. Anto, age 90, appears three or four times a week at the street-level window that looks into the ...
LANSING — Alzheimer’s is one of the most expensive diseases in the country. The costs associated with Alzheimer’s can be staggering for families, with average out-of-pocket costs for health care and long-term care services not covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance exceeding ...
LANSING — The Alzheimer’s Association Michigan Chapter will partner with the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center at the University of Michigan to offer two research programs focused on the latest in Alzheimer’s research in May. The Michigan chapter also will offer a variety of ...
PHOENIX — America is starting to claw its way out of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, but food insecurity persists, especially for children and older adults. Food banks around the U.S. continue giving away far more canned, packaged and fresh provisions than they did ...
ISHPEMING — After 65 years in the cosmetology business, Main Street School of Cosmetology owner Rose Strom is retiring in May. Strom, 82, has been in the profession since she graduated from Ishpeming High School in 1956. At that time, she didn’t even want to think about going back to ...
WASHINGTON — With the memory of the pandemic’s toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief law is offering states a generous funding boost for home- and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalizing disabled people. Advocates hope the estimated $12.7 billion will ...
MARQUETTE — In the course of a single lifetime, we have gone from one of the most age-integrated nations on earth to one defined by generational separation. Then, the vital social distancing of the past year severed the few cross-generational interactions that remained. A project conceived by ...
LANSING — With the recent introduction of a health care bill in the Legislature and a continued national discussion, the concept of “Medicare for All” remains promoted by progressives as a way to deal with a health system that some believe is inherently flawed. The term “Medicare for ...
MARQUETTE — The Marquette Regional History Center presents the Special Exhibit: “The Story Behind Their Clothes” starting April 26 and continuing to Jan. 8. What do Yoopers wear? Yoopers have been pioneers, Victorian businessmen, farming women, immigrant families, Northern students and ...
MARQUETTE — Trained mediators can volunteer at the Marquette Alger Resolution Services, the local community dispute resolution service. MARS provides peaceful dispute resolution for all types of matters in Marquette and Alger counties. Many of the disputes we help with are parenting time, ...
BILLINGS, Mont. — For 35 years, Dee Dee Hawk was solving unusual mysteries, like whether a captured grizzly bear was guilty of attacking a human. Sometimes using only scraps of evidence, she helped put bad guys behind bars and unraveled wildlife-related whodunits when there were no ...
It can begin with the occasional missed bill payment. An inability to remember names. Telling the same story repeatedly. There may be personality changes or mood swings. Confusion. Over time, it’s as if the person who once was slowly disappears. Dementia. As the population ages, a growing ...
PARIS — Question: How does one cram enough candles onto a birthday cake for one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19? Answer: With 117 candles, you can’t. A French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person celebrated her 117th birthday in style on Thursday, ...
NEW YORK — About 1 in 3 Americans say they definitely or probably won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new poll that some experts say is discouraging news if the U.S. hopes to achieve herd immunity and vanquish the outbreak. The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for ...
MELBOURNE, Fla. — When engineer Roland Norris set out to write down the stories of his career spanning 40 years at NASA, he had one regret. “I wish I’d kept a journal or made notes. Instead I wrote it all from memory,” Norris told FLORIDA TODAY. He discovered quickly that he needed ...
By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — Tova Friedman hid among corpses at Auschwitz amid the chaos of the extermination camp’s final days. Just 6 years old at the time, the Poland-born Friedman was instructed by her mother to lie absolutely still in a bed at a camp ...
Even before she sees the name on the return address, Nancy Sloane knows who sent the letter — the Snoopy sticker that seals the envelope is a dead giveaway. It’s from Wesley Morgan, a 32-year-old fan of the comic strip “Peanuts” who’s been sending Snoopy-themed cards and letters ...