Rachel Shannon Brown
This May – which is both Older Americans Month and National Elder Law Month – Community Legal Aid seeks to raise awareness of issues facing elders. Thanks to support from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs and Title III of the Federal Older Americans Act, Community Legal Aid provides free services to vulnerable persons age 60 and older who have civil legal problems.
As noted in the White House’s 2021 Proclamation on Older Americans Month, the “COVID-19 pandemic has imposed tremendous hardships on our Nation’s older Americans. Older adults particularly those from communities of color have comprised the majority of deaths from COVID-19, with more than 80 percent of all deaths to date occurring in persons 65 and older.
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Non-vaccinated individuals are advised to continue wearing face masks and to continue distancing in most settings. The advisory will also recommend fully vaccinated individuals no longer need to wear a face covering or social distance indoors or outdoors except for in certain situations.
Updated face covering advisory for unvaccinated residents
Face coverings will still be required for all individuals on public and private transportation (including rideshares, livery, taxi, ferries, MBTA, Commuter Rail and transportation stations), healthcare facilities and providers, congregate care settings and health and rehabilitative day services.
Face coverings will also remain required indoors for staff and students of K-12 schools and early education providers.
Updated on May 25, 2021 at 3:34 pm
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Gov. Charlie Baker announced last week that Massachusetts will rescind the state s current mask order effective Saturday, May 29, just in time for Memorial Day weekend. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Non-vaccinated individuals are advised to continue wearing face masks and to continue distancing in most settings. The advisory will also recommend fully vaccinated individuals no longer need to wear a face covering or social distance indoors or outdoors except for in certain situations.
Updated face covering advisory for unvaccinated residents
May 18, 2021
The Council on Aging of West Florida senior dining sites reopened Monday for the first time since the start of the pandemic last year.
The Council on Aging congregate meal program sites are open elders 60 and over on Monday, May 17. The sites closed March 16, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, meals were available at these sites via a Monday through Friday grab-and-go platform, but now the locations are open with 100 percent occupancy so older adults can resume daytime activities.
Meals must be ordered a day in advance before 12 noon by calling (850) 432-1475.
For those who can and enjoy getting out for lunch, the Senior Dining Program is a neighborhood-based program which offers older citizens the opportunity to share their lunch with others their age. Hot nutritious balanced meals are served to active senior adults at several locations throughout Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Meals are prepared fresh daily and contain one-third of the required