By Liz Bell EdNC St. Joseph of the Pines, a retirement home in Moore County, surveyed its staff in 2023 to ask about their child care arrangements. They found many employees were using informal care —...
A caregiving daughter once wrote in and asked me this common question: “How can I find a gerontologist* near me to review medications, and help care for my mother with dementia?” As you may have notic...
By Grace Vitaglione Alice Hedt said she saw “horrible conditions” in a Piedmont-area nursing home while visiting a resident there in fall 2024. Her friend, who was in the facility for rehabilitation, ...
By Anne Blythe Most North Carolina households that are hooked up to community water systems have fluoride in their drinking water. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compiled by ...
By Jennifer Fernandez Kristen Bush remembers the first time her firstborn suffered a severe allergic reaction. Braylon was 7 months old, and he had just started eating solid foods. That night, it was ...
By Grace Vitaglione Michael Roberts went to treatment for substance use disorder 26 times. The Asheville native, who is now the director of outreach at Addiction Professionals of North Carolina, said ...
A push by Congressional Republicans to slash federal funding for Medicaid could have “dire consequences” for the more than 1.2 million rural North Carolinians who depend on the program. That was the k...
By Maya Hagan UNC Media Hub The consequences of improper health care training are not lost on Dr. Meg Zomorodi. It was her reality when she lost her mother to a medical error. Now the associate provos...
(This article is a special guest post by geriatrician Dr. Nicole Didyk, founder of the blog and YouTube channel The Wrinkle. Like me, Dr. Didyk has a particular interest in informing and empowering ol...
By Michelle Andrews One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural P...