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Everywhere, people are fed up with enforced isolation. While adhering to stay-at-home orders at the urging of public health officials and in empathy with frontline health care workers, the restrictions are taking a toll on the physical and mental wellbeing of all. While senior citizens can be especially impacted, it is less commonly acknowledged that younger people, particularly teens, struggle with isolation too. For older adults, enduring long periods cut off from family and friends is known to cause depression, generalized anxiety disorders, decreased sleep, and functional impairment. Rese...

“Kinship care” is defined by the Pennsylvania KinConnector as “the full-time care, nurturing and protection of children by relatives or any adult who has a ‘kinship’ bond with the children.” In 2020, the organization Generations United reported that 8 million children are living with a relative as the head of the household, nationwide. Among them, 2.7 million children are raised by relatives without parental presence. In Pennsylvania, there are about 239,000 children under 18 who live in homes where householders are grandparents (80%) or other relatives. Accordin...

Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee The Brown family is a multigenerational family living in Madison, Wis.. Cassilyn Brown, top left, is a forensic nurse examiner at UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital. She feared bringing the coronavirus home to her family before most of the adults were vaccinated. So far, no family member has been infected with the virus. Also pictured in the top row are David Bingham Brown, center, and Ash Baker, right. Bottom row, from left, are: Victoria Brown, Alaric Brown and David Ralph Brown, 79, who has chronic pneumonia and a heart arrhythmia, ...

Tony's Kansas City Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Kansas City Broke-Ass New Normal Hopes To Destigmatize Mom's Basement Non-profit news offers this less than inspirational reporting on local life and good company amid the pandemic that bloggers discovered after that first financial bubble/marriage/job burst . . . Read more and ignore donation asks from partisan funded blogs who don't host any decent jokes: In the past year, the resulting economic crises have pushed more people into multigenerational living — among those currently living in a multigenerational home, 57% say they are doing so beca...

The Tech That Could Help Seniors Drive Longer EPAM Continuum, a consultancy group, is developing a technology called Silverkey that would work with the vehicle to help the driver Silverkey Not only are we all getting older, but a larger percentage of the U.S. population is crossing demographic benchmarks. In 2018, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said there were 45 million licensed drivers aged 65 or over, a 60% increase from the year 2000. In 2030, the youngest Baby Boomer will be older than 65. Based on birth and death rates, come 2034, the U.S. Census Bureau says those 77 millio...