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COVID-19 will push nursing home design forward The second-floor courtyard at the Southington Care Center. Myles Brown Over 40 percent of American deaths attributed to COVID-19 have been nursing home residents. Outdated nursing home designs contributed to the scale of this tragedy in Connecticut. Many design changes that could have prevented the spread of COVID-19 were already needed to improve the well-being of nursing home residents. The pandemic has made these issues impossible to ignore. A generation of seniors will now benefit from resident-centric changes in design thinking that would h...

Disabled, marginalized, stalled and walled Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Alex Bode, left, listens to her speech therapist at home in North Branford. Bode, who likes people and has spent most of her time at home during the pandemic, said, “I mean it’s very boring. I have nothing to do.” As a bilingual health information specialist for PATH P2P Family Voices CT and National Family Voices Cultural Responsiveness Telehealth Team, I offer more than professional expertise as well as despair for the marginalized within marginalized communities. I am a Latina with disabilities, adoptive mother of ...

Truth or consequences: The impact of lie-based politics A radio show by the name in the headline, emceed by a man named Ralph Edwards, became a big hit starting in 1940. It eventually became a TV show, and all told, it lasted for decades. The format of the show was to be asked a question, and if it was not answered truthfully, the contestant submitted to undertaking a silly stunt of almost any kind. The show seemed reflective of a culture that valued untruth for perceived rewards, however trivial. It is interesting to note that it came onto the popular scene in the midst of world turmoil both...

The marijuana legalization debate must be based on facts In response to my earlier piece on why Connecticut lawmakers should reject marijuana commercialization,  Brendan Ruberry wrote a rebuttal that, on its face seems scathing, but to be clear, the attempted rebuttal falls flat and well off the mark. First, Ruberry’s attempts to discredit the fact that users of today’s high potency forms of marijuana have been found to be five times more likely to develop psychosis. He calls it “a half-truth,” and claims that the study only examined “the effect of marijuana on teenagers.” Not on...

In his budget address on February 10,  Gov. Ned Lamont announced his intent to expand broadband connectivity in Connecticut, an effort to be lauded. Connecticut enjoys a significant competitive advantage for economic development in the Connecticut Education Network (CEN) “ … a 2,500 route mile, all optical, high-performance internet network.” The density of CEN within Connecticut is impressively high.  Connecticut taxpayers funded its initial phase; the Obama administration then added millions for further expansion, inclusive of welcoming the private sector.  The impediments to lever...