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Provided content Before Melissa Dever can talk with people about Alzheimer’s support services, she knows there are a couple of questions she has to answer. “One of the first questions people want to know when you interact with them is, ‘who are you? Where are you from? Who are you related to? All of that matters,'” said Dever, an Alzheimer’s Association program director who works with Appalachian communities. “I drive a tractor, I am out in the hayfield, I do all the things that they do to let them know I am relatable. We do a lot of ‘front-porch sitting’ because you are not ...

  Chip Minemyer’s mother, Marjorie, was born in the Bald Eagle Valley. Minemyer said she was sweet and full of life and loved the area. He lost his mother to COVID-19 on Thanksgiving day. “She was 92, a lifelong Centre County resident," Minemyer said.   Nationally, about a third of COVID-19 deaths are from nursing and personal care homes. In Pennsylvania, it’s more than half.   Marjorie Minemyer had been living at Centre Crest, a nursing home in Centre County, for about a year and a half.   Early on in the pandemic, Chip Minemyer could meet with her at a distance — once in the ga...

Posted: Dec 28, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: December 28, 2020 Portrait photographer Aous Poules launched Project Echo back in the summer to amplify and elevate voices 'in Canada's underrepresented Black community.' (Submitted by Aous Poules) Going to the dentist as a child and feeling humiliated by staff touching your hair, being picked last for sports teams despite being athletic or being told by guidance counsellors in high school that your goals were "too ambitious." Those are just are a few of the experiences shared by participants in Project Echo, a visual series launched by Aou...