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Thursday: Boomers & Beyond

New book club starting at Negaunee library

NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee Public Library is starting a caregiver-child book club. Elementary-aged children and their caring adults are welcome to read a book together and then come to the library to discuss the book at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The program will begin with “Rise of the Earth ...

Stressful, low-reward work may double heart disease risk for men

Men who worked in stressful jobs that they felt required high effort but provided low reward had twice the risk of heart disease as men who were free of such stressors, a study has found. The combined effect of job strain and effort-reward imbalance was similar to the magnitude of the effect ...

Some US airports strive to make flying more inclusive for those with dementia

PHOENIX (AP) — Andrea Nissen is trying to prepare her 65-year-old husband, who has Alzheimer’s disease, for a solo flight from Arizona to Oklahoma to visit family. She worries about travelers and airport officials misinterpreting his forgetfulness or habit of getting in people’s personal ...

More than a meal: Restaurant-based programs feed seniors’ social lives

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — A group of friends and neighbors meets for a weekly meal, choosing from a special menu of nutritious foods paid for by social programs meant to keep older adults eating healthy. They’re all over 60, and between enjoying butternut squash soup, sandwiches, oats and ...

Marking 60 years

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Sixty years ago, Andrew Young and his staff had just emerged from an exhausting campaign against racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. But they didn’t feel no ways tired, as the Black spiritual says. The foot soldiers were on a “freedom high,” Young ...