Mike Festa

AARP Awards Four Massachusetts Organizations with Community Grants as Part of its Successful Nationwide...

BY MIKE FESTA, STATE DIRECTOR, AARP MASSACHUSETTS AARP Massachusetts has announced four Bay State organizations will receive 2021 Community Challenge grants – part of the...
Janice Lindsay reflects on the belief or disbelief in luck.

Summer insects; some are magical

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer I awoke around midnight and, unable to sleep, I watched out the window as flickering lights floated above the grassy...
Marianne Delorey

Art for Art’s Sake

By Marianne Delorey, Ph.D. “Earth, without Art is just ‘Eh’” -- Demetri Martin A few years ago, some of our elderly residents started coloring. It was...
Mike Festa

AARP Research Shows Family Caregivers Face Significant Financial Strain

Family Caregivers Spend on Average $7,242 Each Year By Mike Festa, State Director AARP Massachusetts New research from AARP shows that nearly 8 in 10 of...

Thanks a lot, Bulova

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer Eighty years ago, in July of 1941, the few thousand Americans who owned TVs could witness a momentous event, though...

Family Dental Group keeps you smiling with cosmetic dentistry services

By Liz Nolan, Contributing Writer NORTHBOROUGH - There’s a lot to smile about as the COVID-19 restrictions are finally lifted. The husband-wife dentist team of...

The Cycle of Poverty

By Marianne Delorey, Ph.D. There is a growing body of research that indicates that the stressors of poverty change the brain. The brain, then, is...
Mike Festa

New AARP Analysis Shows Massachusetts COVID Cases and Deaths Continue to Decline in Nursing...

By Mike Festa, State Director, AARP Massachusetts The latest release of AARP's Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard shows that both cases and deaths in Bay State...
Janice Lindsay

Weed Removal Therapy

By Janice Lindsay, Contributing Writer The far end of our back yard is a bog. The house sits on a slight rise. Behind it, maybe...

No Place Like Home

By Marianne Delorey, Ph.D.   “Home is heaven for beginners.” – Charles Henry Parkhurst A few years ago, my brother and I were playing a game with...