So that’s why they call it Sioux Falls: …the CDC reported in 2021 that South Dakota ranks third in the nation in deaths from falls,…
Tag: elderly
One part of the market in South Dakota that shouldn’t be ailing is services for old people. The state has a growing number of old…
Several days ago, I mentioned AARP’s maps showing that South Dakota has the worst rates of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths among nursing home residents…
In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
The next President of the United States, Joe Biden, has offered more concrete policy plans to make life better for all Americans this month than…
National liberal agitproppers (in this case, I use both terms affectionately) Now This News is calling young voters to action with this public service announcement from…
Don’t tell me Aberdeen’s senior citizens don’t know how to get around on the Internet. Jackie Witlock, our city’s Senior Center director, has discovered she…
Hey, county commissioners! You’d better call Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds and tell them not to break your budgets with their health care bill:…
The gentleman I seek to replace in the Legislature, Senator David Novstrup (R-3/Aberdeen), is noted for “taking the lead” on a 2015 elder abuse task force that…
I’m not sure whether to read the closing of the Veblen Senior Meals program and the decline in participation in the program in neighboring towns as bad news or good…