Aging

Starting today, senior citizens who received services, including weekday meal delivery, at home from the Boyle County Senior Citizens Center will have a new provider for the first time in almost three decades. The center was informed recently that...

West T. Hill Community Theatre’s annual Play Reading week will be March 6-9. The four-day event is an opportunity for the community to read excerpts of the plays the theater’s personnel are considering for the 2011-2012 season. The readings...

Deep wrinkles, a telltale sign of aging, may also offer important clues about a woman’s bone fracture risk, according to a new study in early menopausal women. Yale University researchers examined skin wrinkles in 11 spots on the face and the...

By midlife, you've probably spent years thinking of yourself as a certain kind of person — outgoing or introverted, high-strung or easygoing, optimistic or pessimistic. You may have become accustomed to certain roles and styles of communication in...

The Washington County Commission on Aging has made tentative plans to relocate the Washington County Senior Center in an effort to improve services and save $50,000 per year. Susan MacDonald, executive director of the commission, said officials want to...

Compared with uncaffeinated women, those who drank the equivalent of four or more cups of coffee a day are more likely to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and less likely to volunteer their time in church or community groups. But a new study finds...

First it was planking. Wikipedia defines planking as “lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location … refers to mimicking a wooden plank. Rigidity of the body must be maintained to constitute good planking.” As with all...

To an Alzheimer's patient, there's nothing funny about forgetting to turn off the oven, losing a telephone number or misplacing books from the library. But turning those mishaps into punch lines might turn out to be therapeutic. The idea that...

Hearing aids might help increase memory, reduce anxiety and increase social interaction among dementia patients, local health experts say. "Whether you have dementia or not, you need to hear," said Ronna Fisher, audiologist and founder and president of...

The Inter-Faith Ministries Board of Directors named Deborah Donaldson as Interim Executive Director of Inter-Faith Ministries on Thursday afternoon.  Donaldson will begin August 22, 2011. Donaldson is the Director of the Sedgwick County Division of Human...

The December deluge destroyed or damaged art and valuable documents in homes and studios in Laguna. In 1993, fire was the culprit. In 2005, a landslide. At least some, if not all, of the destruction could have been avoided, according to Scott...

More than 100 prisoners, many shaved and tattooed, crowded into the hard pews of the Men's Central Jail chapel and craned their necks to get a good look at "The Man." Sheriff Lee Baca, the top authority figure in Los Angeles County's troubled jail...