Three years after taking the helm of local elderly in-home care agency Village Caregiving, registered nurse and Village Caregiving Executive Director Toni McNett celebrated the culmination of her team’s hard work during a recent grand opening of the agency’s new office on the historic ...
by Stacy Torres Age matters, but so do words. While pundits debate President Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness for office and the possible motivations behind prejudicial language contained in special counsel Robert K. Hur’s classified documents report, the rest of us have a ...
I oversaw the care of an elderly friend in his last years. Up until age 86, Frank was pretty much in control. But then he was diagnosed with cancer. The disease and the drugs greatly sapped powers that old age had already altered. The telephone became his conduit to the outside ...
A Morgantown woman is facing four counts of grand larceny and one count of financial exploitation of an elderly person after allegedly withdrawing thousands of dollars from an elderly relative’s bank account. On Oct. 19, an employee from Adult Protective Services (APS) spoke with West ...
In a seemingly endless cycle of bad news, we were looking for something a little less depressing to talk about, and the Companionship Diet program from Home Instead caught our attention. The Companionship Diet is a program designed to bring seniors and their loved ones or caregivers ...
By Gov. Jim Justice’s estimation, some 90,000 West Virginians just might be egging on their mortality. That’s about how many residents in the 65-plus age range have yet to receive their first dosages of the coronavirus vaccine, he told reporters Wednesday in a regularly scheduled ...