Chicken keeping, gardening and beekeeping were a way of life. In recent years, however, communities across the country have embraced a homestead revival. Many of these tasks, once considered daily life choirs, have found new roots in our city gardens, local beekeepers and farm to table movements. ...

 The number of older borrowers increased by at least 20 percent between 2012 and 2017. Some of these borrowers were borrowing for themselves, but the majority was borrowing for others. The study found that 73 percent of student loan borrowers age 60 and older borrowed for a child’s or grandchild’s education. ...

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From Cleveland Clinic

According to the latest report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of reported measles cases in the U.S. has reached 555.

The measles outbreak has now spread to 20 states.

Camille Sabella, M.D., an infectious disease expert at Cleveland Clinic Children’s, says measles can look like a common cold at first, but the symptoms escalate quickly.

“It usually starts out with some cold symptoms, some coughing, red eyes, and then they quickly develop a high fever of 104 or 105,” he says. “They will have a bright red rash, which usually starts on the face, and the head and the neck, and spreads down to the trunk and the extremities.”

Dr. Sabella says the rash typically lasts for about four to five days, and the fever lasts for a few days.

It’s possible for complications to develop from the measles, and these can be severe.

One of the main concerns is that a person can develop primary measles pneumonia or secondary bacterial pneumonia. Another troublesome complication that can result from measles is acute encephalitis.

“The other main complication that we worry about is acute encephalitis, which is a swelling of the brain, which has a very significant mortality rate,” says Dr. Sabella. “And those that do survive, can certainly have some long-lasting neurodevelopment problems.”

Dr. Sabella says, because measles is such a contagious virus, if it gets introduced into a community where not everyone is vaccinated, it can spread very rapidly.

Measles symptoms are severe in both children and adults. However, he said the complication rates are actually a little higher in adults.

Dr. Sabella says, because we’ve done such a good job vaccinating against measles, it’s easy for people to think that the danger doesn’t exist anymore, but this current outbreak shows how easy it is for this dangerous disease to spread.

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The Cuyahoga County Division of Senior and Adult Services is partnering with the Cleveland Clergy Alliance to launch a new program to connect seniors with County services. An unveiling of the partnership was held last Friday at St. Aloysius Church in Cleveland.

The collaboration, funded through the County’s Health and Human Services Levy, will deploy church ‘navigators’ to connect seniors in need to services such as: health care benefits; property tax and prescription drug discounts; home energy, food and housing assistance; and legal and employment services.

“One of the County’s top priorities is to ensure all residents are safe, supported and able to care for themselves,” said Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish. “The new church navigator program will help connect seniors to services that are already available to them to help meet their immediate needs.”

The Cleveland Clergy Alliance is a non-profit organization that serves as a hub for faith-based community engagement. Chief Executive Officer Reverend Lorenzo Norris expressed his pride in the new program by saying, “We are coming together to make the City of Cleveland and the County senior friendly.”

The program originated in 2015 when the partners conducted a need assessment among seniors in their congregations and identified that many of them were not aware of services available to them or how to access them. The partners determined that the best way to reach the seniors was in their homes and at their houses of worship since they did not frequent senior centers or other venues due to transportation issues.

Jacquelyn Adams, the program’s outreach administrator, will lead a team of ten navigators from churches throughout the County, as they reach out to seniors in their communities. “The navigators are community members who are trained in the issues of aging and the resources available,” Adams explained. “Their role is to help the seniors identify needs and connect with the right resources.”

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Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond magazine is thrilled to have several local authors join us at Boomer Bash West May 1 at LaCentre in Westlake.

 

They include:

 

•  Boomer’s pop culture columnist Mike Olszewski and his wife Janet Olszewski, the authors of the new book “Smoky, Sweaty, Rowdy, and Loud: Tales of Cleveland’s Legendary Rock & Roll Landmarks.” They will also have copies of their other books for sale, including “Cleveland Radio Tales: Stories from the Local Radio Scene of the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.” Mike is a veteran of Cleveland radio and teaches pop culture at local universities.

 

•  Long-time sports reporter-turned-author Dan Coughlin with his latest book, “Just One More Story…A Last Batch of Stories About the Most Unusual, Eccentric and Outlandish People I’ve Known in Five Decades as a Sports Journalist.”

 

• Retired WJW reporter Neil Zurcher, author of “Tales from the Road,” “Ohio Road Trips,” “Ohio Oddities,” and “Strange Tales from Ohio.” Zurcher created the popular TV segment “One Tank Trips” during his on-air tenure at Channel 8.

 

• Fiction writer Bob Adamov, author of 12 mystery adventure novels. His latest is “Flight. Put-in-Bay to Key West to Cuba.” Two of his books are in discussions for screenplays, “Tan Lines” and “The Other Side of Hell.”

 

 

• Tak Sato, founder of the Cleveland-area nonprofit Center for Aging in the World. He and his wife Mely run workshops that help people 55+ develop computer skills. He’s also Boomer’s tech talk columnist and will be available to answer tech questions.
  Tickets are still available and are only $10. Call 440-971-0595, go online at
  boomerbashwest2019.eventbrite.com or show up and pay $10 at the door. We’ll see you at the Bash.

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A caregiver agreement (also called a personal care contract) is a contract between a parent and a child (or another family member) in which the parent agrees to reimburse the child for caring for the parent. These agreements have many benefits. They provide a way to reward the family member doing the work. They can help alleviate tension between family members by making sure caregiving is fairly compensated. ...