| Jacob stuck in nursing home
A 39-YEAR-old man with multiple sclerosis is facing the rest of his life in an old-age nursing home because there is nowhere else for him. Jacob Taurins is an intelligent, artistic and social man confined to a wheelchair, but will soon have to live among dementia patients and residents more than 50 years his senior. A lack of disability services and government funding means Mr Taurins has no choice but to join more than 1500 Victorians under 65 living in old-age homes. For the past nine months Mr Taurins has been in and out of hospitals across Melbourne as his MS worsened to the point where his family needs extra support to care for him, at a cost of about $1000 a week. He has now been told he cannot return to his Macedon home when his treatment for pressure sores at Melbourne Extended Care and Rehabilitation Service ends.
Rural Work Ethic Curbs Elderly Heart Care
Research study at University of Alberta ,shows a strong work ethic and sense of place appear to influence how elderly rural Albertans with congestive heart failure manage their illness, in that these values may delay them from seeking help at critical times. .
Lost generation: Why thousands of young people are fleeing our region
Jason Kenyon, 24, of the hamlet of Wallkill, writes contracts for a reinsurance company in Chicago. He would have liked to stay in the Hudson Valley, perhaps as a paralegal to prepare for law school, but found nothing, nothing. Hes now happy in Chicago. Theres tons of cultural stuff, and besides, taxes in New York are frightening. .
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