- The Latest: Ontario seniors won't get AstraZeneca vaccine
![Sossie Bedrossian, head of nursing for the Los Angeles school district, walks in the parking lot of a COVID-19 vaccination site for district employees at SOFI Stadium Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Inglewood, Calif.]()
- Lawmakers call for improved vaccine distribution for seniors
![Garry E. Dean, SEPTA Regional Rail Station Manager, gets vaccinated by military personnel at the FEMA Community Vaccination Center in Center City Philadelphia on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas toured the FEMA Community Vaccination Center earlier in the day. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)]()
- SC seniors concerned, sympathetic about teacher vaccinations
![Signs line the pathway to a COVID-19 vaccine site operated by PRISMA Health in Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021.]()
- Vaccinating Florida's seniors at Miami's largest hospital
![FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo, Irma Mesa, 74, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Jackson Hospital in Miami. Mesa, who hasn't seen her children or grandchildren since January 2020, got a second appointment for her 80-year-old husband, Angel. Now the couple will consider whether they can safely see their grandkids.]()
- Luxury Senior Living Refined (Sponsored)
![The rooftop deck at the Alexander in Bend, Oregon features multiple fire pits and some of the most beautiful views in the Pacific Northwest of the surrounding mountain ranges.]()
- Workers at bankrupt Bethlehem senior homes approve contract with likely...
![Employees at Good Samaritan Nursing Home and Kenwood Manor in Delmar picketed outside the facilities on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 to demand their employer, The Lutheran Care Network, pay outstanding dues owed to their health benefit fund. The financially troubled company faces the prospect of bankruptcy and is currently in the process of trying to sell the facilities, employees say. (Bethany Bump/Times Union)]()
Healthy Living
![Rose Ramirez, right, 65, exercises using a back machine at Gold?•s Gym as her personal trainer Steve Suesz, left, records her workout in San Antonio, Texas, on Monday, December 30, 2019. Ramirez is a retired Air Force Colonel who served in the military for 38 years. After being diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in August 2017, Ramirez underwent chemotherapy and has been cancer-free since September 2018. She has since started a workout regime at Gold?•s Gym with a personal trainer, Steve Suesz, who has her performing exercises to improve her balance and strength. ?'My goal is the be strong and able to move,?" Ramirez said. Personal trainer Suesz, who has a certification in senior fitness, says that as people get older, their muscle strength atrophies, and it becomes easier for their bones to break. Suesz has structured Ramirez?•s workout regimen to be proactive when it comes to performing everyday tasks and to help her maintain a healthy balance of strength and flexibility.]()
How to keep exercising despite arthritis, heart issues, cancerMost people with health issues can still exercise, as long as they make certain modifications to stay safe.By Richard A. Marini
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Health
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Finance
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![State Reps., from leftm Sharon Cooper, R-Marietta; Don Hogan, R-St. Simon's Island; Katie Dempsey, R-Rome; Terry England, R-Newington; and Mary Margaret Oliver, D-Decatur, listen as Speaker of the House Rep. David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, center, speaks during a press conference after the House passed the Georgia Budget, HB 81, at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta, Friday, March 5, 2021. Georgia's House on Friday voted 136-31 to pass a $27.2 billion budget, putting back a fraction of the money that was cut last year and spurning a Democratic attempt to more widely expand the Medicaid health insurance program. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)]()
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![FILE - In this March 23, 2020 file photo, Gov. Asa Hutchinson, right, speaks in Little Rock, Ark. Hutchinson said Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, he will not back former President Donald Trump if he runs for the White House in 2024, saying "it's time" to move on to different voices in the Republican Party. (Staton Breidenthal/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP, File)]()
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Care
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![FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 8, 2021 file photo, a medical staff member administers a dose of the Pfizer-Biotech vaccine to an over eighty-year-old, in the Santa Maria della Pieta hospital in Rome. The Vatican is calling for a new paradigm of care for the elderly after the "massacre" wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately killed the aged living in nursing homes. The Vatican's Pontifical Council of Life issued a position paper Tuesday that made the case for a global rethink of how to care for people in their final years, including resisting the knee-jerk recourse to institutional care in favor of adapting home environments to the needs of people as they age.]()
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![Wesley Village, an assisted living facility in Shelton, announced plans for what it is calling Lifestyle Transitions, a new memory care neighborhood in Wesley Heights, its renovated northwest wing.]()
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