Similar to the way a home alarm company monitors for intrusion and dispatches the police, medical alert companies contact emergency help when an emergency alert pendant’s button is pressed.
Aging Well Whatcom has crafted a project called The Art of Aging, which features beautifully painted portraits of older adults throughout the region along with audio interviews in which they discuss where they are in their experience with aging.
Everyone who has been fully vaccinated with any of the three COVID-19 vaccines approved or authorized for use in the United States is now eligible for a booster shot.
Christian Health Care Center has welcomed a new psychologist to our team. Dr. Robert E. H. Johnson is available to provide psychology services to CHCC residents.
I am most proud of my wife and four girls. I met my wife in school and asked her out at the county fair in Missouri. We’ve had a full life.
The vaccine mandate means that COVID-19 vaccination will become a condition of employment at health care centers in Washington state on Oct. 18.
Many factors play a role in choosing where to live in older age: proximity to family, quality of life, level of nursing care, availability of services and more.
Update (Jan. 28, 2022)The long-term care insurance tax has been delayed through 2022 while lawmakers "make refinements to the bill," to quote Gov. Jay Inslee. For more information, https://mynorthwest.com/3286162/gov-inslee-delays-long-term-care-tax-through-2022/....
You are not alone. That’s one major theme of Mental Health Awareness Month, celebrated throughout May. Mental illness affects one in five adults in the United States (including one in five older than 55), with about five percent experiencing serious mental illness....
The decision to cautiously allow visitors inside CHCC — made possible by the state’s relaxing of restrictions on indoor visitation — has been one that CHCC leaders have not taken lightly.
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