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Oldest living Filipino Korean War vet marks 99th birthday
MANILA—Retired Maj. Max Young, the oldest living Filipino Korean War veteran, celebrated his 99th birthday last July 30,…
Be a blessing
Two years in intermittent lockdowns. And you are still here. Safe at home with your loved ones while…
Hong Kong recovery imperiled by elderly saying no to vaccine
Unlike the US where anti-vaccine fringe groups have fueled resistance to Covid shots, Hong Kong is facing a…
Archaeologists say ancient rock art sheds light on folk migration
TUGUEGARAO CITY—A directly-dated rock art created 3,500 years ago and found at the Callao Caves in Peñablanca town…
A4 individuals urged to bring along elderly
DUMAGUETE CITY—Individuals listed under the priority sector A4 (economic frontliners) in the government’s Covid-19 vaccination priority program are…
The art of long looking
Speaking of surge, there is a tsunami that is about to overwhelm us. It’s the digital wave that…
Senior citizens of Valenzuela receive early Christmas treats
The early Christmas gift-giving tradition for the elderly in Valenzuela City lives on despite the Covid-19 pandemic. The…
Makati City offers cash gift to vaccinated senior citizens
Some 24,352 fully vaccinated senior citizens of Makati City do not only have significant levels of protection against…
100 percent elderly vaccination result of Pasig City’s info drive
MANILA—Word of mouth has been crucial in addressing vaccine hesitancy in Pasig City. Mayor Vico Sotto said on…
Quezon City prioritizes seniors in congested areas for J&J jabs
MANILA—Senior citizens of Quezon City’s District 2 were prioritized for the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccines in a…
Fully vaccinated senior citizens in Surigao del Norte town get cash aid
BUTUAN CITY—Senior citizens of Claver, Surigao del Norte who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus received financial aid…
Preserving every hometown’s story
I have never been to Dumaguete City in Negros Oriental. I heard that it is one of the…
Largest vaccine rollout in Laoag attracts hundreds of elderly
LAOAG CITY—Hundreds of senior citizens mostly from this city received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday,…
Owning more books than one can read
MY overflowing bookshelves have been a constant bone of contention for Aurit, my wife, and me. “Why do…
China’s luxury retirement homes draw attention from investors
Retiree William Tang recently decided to swap his life in downtown Shanghai for a luxury elder-care development in…
PWDe online bazaar showcases PWDs’ products and services
IN celebration of National Disability Week, newly established social enterprise Precious Works of Differently Abled Enterprise (PWDe) will…
Tesda trains OFWs to provide elderly care amid pandemic
Amid the ongoing health crisis globally, there’s no stopping the Filipinos’ desire to take care of other people…
MVP leads Ateneo community showing love to ‘Lolo Jesuits’
The Jesuit priests have inspired a lot of people to truly become men and women for others—whether it…
Designated ‘martir’ in the family
IF there is a designated survivor for a government in crisis, there is a designated caregiver in the…
₧53-million home care facility opens in Valenzuela for elderly and PWDIs
IN celebration of the 152nd birthday anniversary of Filipino hero Dr. Pio Valenzuela, the P53-million home care facility…
PHL assumes ILO group chairmanship; pushes for protection of elder workers
Pushing for better protection of elder workers and gaining a more equitable country representation will be among the…
Archaeologists say ancient rock art sheds light on folk migration
TUGUEGARAO CITY—A directly dated rock art created 3,500 years ago and found at the Callao Caves in Peñablanca…
Britain to force care home staff to have Covid-19 jab
Care home workers in England will be required to have a Covid-19 vaccination or risk losing their jobs.…
What empty nest?
IN the traditional scenario, at this stage of our life, my wife and I are supposed to enjoy…
Valenzuela senior is lucky recipient of 10 millionth Covid-19 jab in PHL
THE Philippines has already reached the 10 million level of inoculating the nation’s population against the deadly Covid-19.…
Going back to the wellsprings
With the unexpected death of a former president in his sleep combined with the demise of acquaintances who…
Central Visayas LGUs urged to step up vaccination of senior citizens
CEBU CITY—With low vaccination turnout for the elderly, the Visayas Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC) on Monday urged local…
China’s ‘one-child policy’ left at least 1 million bereaved parents childless and alone in old age
A child’S death is devastating to all parents. But for Chinese parents, losing an only child can add…
DOH urges LGUs to assure elders of Covid vaccination
BAGUIO CITY—The Department of Health in the Cordillera Administrative Region (DOH-CAR) has called on local government units (LGUs)…
Watchdog: Nursing home deaths up 32% in 2020 amid pandemic
WASHINGTON—Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32 percent last year, with two devastating spikes eight…
Improved nutritional intake reduces risk of malnutrition among elderly–study
A new study shows that nutrition intervention can lessen the risk of malnutrition among the elderly by almost…
Beauty and strength in our brokenness
Nowadays, many people we know are hurting. Hurting deeply inside. My wife has lately been following a pair…
DSWD, DTI finalize guidelines on senior citizen, PWD online purchase discounts
MANILA—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will conduct…
Reverse mentoring can eliminate ageism in the workplace
WE are familiar with the concept of mentoring. Typically, a more senior employee is tasked with guiding a…
A nation of ‘pwede na’
“Men bungle their affairs. Everywhere, I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant.” That was in a book written 50…
Western Visayas social pensioners get stipend
ILOILO CITY—All 365,908 elderly pensioners in Western Visayas have received their stipend for the first semester of this…
Aguinaldo also wanted a monument for himself at Luneta
MANILA—Did you know that Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines after the end of…
Shintaro Katsu’s ‘Zatoichi’ revisited
Old timers like me want to revisit old loves and past guilty pleasures. It so happened that during…
FDA approves much-debated Alzheimer’s drug panned by experts
WASHINGTON—Government health officials on Monday approved the first new drug for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 years, disregarding…
Embracing the challenges of getting old
Getting old is a blessing because it is a privilege denied to many. It is a gift because…
‘False positivity’
Thanks to this pandemic, we learned two new medical terms: “False positive” and “false negative.” When a test…
Can virtual reality help senior citizens? Study hopes to find out
POMPANO BEACH, Florida—Terry Colli and three other residents of the John Knox Village senior community got a trip…
Can virtual reality help seniors? Study hopes to find out
POMPANO BEACH, Florida — Terry Colli and three other residents of the John Knox Village senior community got…
Muntinlupa rolls out house-to-house vaccination for bedridden residents
IN its desire to give virus protection to more senior citizens especially the bedridden, the local government unit…
The other Murphy’s Laws
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong or its shorter version: whatever can go wrong, will. This…
36,000 of Manila’s senior citizens already vaccinated
MANILA—More than 36,000 senior citizens in the city of Manila have received their Covid-19 vaccines as of Friday.…
111-year-old Australian’s longevity secrets include eating chicken brains
CANBERRA, Australia—Australia’s oldest-ever man has included eating chicken brains among his secrets to living more than 111 years.…
Pampanga capital ramps up vaccination for senior citizens
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga—The City Health Office (CHO) here is ramping up efforts to inoculate more than…
California attorney general Rob Bonta says $5 million Ponzi scam bilked older Filipinos
California's Attorney General Rob Bonta charged 15 people with conspiring to defraud mostly elderly victims of Filipino descent out of a combined $5 million through what Bonta alleged was an international Ponzi scheme framed around the construction of the Pagudpud Sands Resort.
Farm boy shows agriculture is a profession of hope
Sixty-two-year-old Vicente Cometa of San Antonio, Quezon is proud of his farming roots. At the young age of…
Oldest Covid patient discharged from Chinese General Hospital
Life begins at…99? This could perhaps be another modern medical marvel that recently occurred at the Chinese General…
Lingering presence
Angelito, Eman and Hammy. Why can’t I seem to forget them? I never had a deep connection with…
98-year-old hosts virtual class for women’s group
BOCA RATON, Fla.—When the coronavirus pandemic shut down the Levis Jewish Community Center last year, 98-year-old Trudy Berlin…
29,000 indigent senior citizens receive social pension in Antique
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) recently released the social pension of…
Book on World War II veterans launched
IN line with the recent celebration of the 79th Fall of Corregidor anniversary, the Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB)…
DSWD releases P239-million aid for Caraga’s 79,000 elderly
BUTUAN CITY—At least 79,925 indigent senior citizens in Caraga region have received over P239.7 million in social pension…
The star of your own biopic
One good thing I like about this pandemic is that it has dimmed the spotlight on the “self.”…
557 indigent senior citizens in Pagudpud receive cash aid
LAOAG CITY—At least 557 indigent senior citizens happily received on Wednesday their six months’ worth of social pension…
Senior housing residency keeps falling despite vaccine rollout
Senior housing occupancy reached a record low in the first quarter in the US, even as vaccination rates…
Cebu City mayor says 5,000 senior citizens get Covid jab
CEBU CITY—Mayor Edgardo Labella on Friday said nearly 5,000 Covid vaccine doses have already been administered to senior…
114-year-old Nebraska woman becomes oldest living American
OMAHA, Nebraska—A 114-year-old Nebraska woman who has taken the title of America’s oldest living person says what she…
Old souls, beautiful souls
I am in my late 60s, going into my 70s. By usual reckoning, consider me old indeed. But…
PCP supports vaccination drive to protect elderly, priority groups
More than 3 million people have already died since the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic more…
93,000 senior citizens register for Covid shots in Davao City
DAVAO CITY—Local health officials said some 93,468 senior citizens are now included in the master list of those…
The inner net
Dismaying, dispiriting, heartbreaking. Those are the feelings I get when I scan the news and the latest social-…
DOH-Calabarzon calls on elderly to register for Covid-19
The Department of Health (DOH)—Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) recently called on all senior citizens in the…
GenSan prepares to inoculate senior citizens
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—The city government will start next week the inoculation of senior citizens and individuals with comorbidities…
It may be so, I don’t know
There is so much happening in our world right now, and everyone has an opinion about everything. Right…
Taguig seniors urge others to help fight Covid by getting vaccinated
MANILA—Senior citizens in Taguig on Wednesday urged their fellow residents to be part of the battle against Covid-19…
Muntinlupa City’s 45,000 senior citizens to get AstraZeneca jab
After the successful inoculation of its frontline health workers, Muntinlupa City is preparing for the vaccination of about…
A listening heart for a suffering world
MY wife sometimes complains that I am too available, giving attention to almost anybody who wants me even…
Muscle your way to healthy aging
BY 2030, one in every 6 people will be 65 years old or older. These super-aged populations will…
Susan Meily-Santos: Promoting virgin coconut oil against Covid
A recent study led by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) revealed that suspected Covid-19 patients administered…
House approves bill increasing elderly social pension to P1,000
The House Committee on Appropriations on Wednesday approved the bill increasing the social pension of senior citizens from…
Married 66 years, husband and wife die minutes apart of coronavirus
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida—Bill and Esther Ilnisky spent nearly seven decades together as Christian ministers and missionaries, working in…
Observe Holy Week by watching good movies
IT was a hot Sunday in summer long before the pandemic. As the priest was delivering an interminable…
NHCP unveils Suluan Quincentennial Marker of Magellan’s 1521 expedition
TACLOBAN CITY—The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) unveiled on Tuesday the first of the 34 historical…
Of captions and subtitles
When watching any film or video, I automatically click on the subtitle option. Subtitles are written translations of…
In pandemic, Navajo community steps up for vulnerable citizens
TEESTO, Arizona—For as long as Raymond Clark has lived alone on this quiet stretch of the Navajo Nation…
Chinese traders’ group asks for review of Sinovac EUA to include senior citizens
A group of Chinese businessmen in the country has appealed to the government’s pandemic task force to reconsider…
2 elderly practicing doctors in GenSan get Sinovac jab
By Richelyn Gubalani GENERAL SANTOS CITY—Two elderly practicing doctors have availed themselves of the Sinovac vaccine in the…
What Jesus can teach ad makers
One daily habit I picked up as a marooned senior during this pandemic is tuning in to online…
Harvard professor ignites uproar over ‘comfort women’ statement
By Collin Binkley / AP Education Writer CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A Harvard University professor has ignited an international uproar and…
PNA’s birth in 1973 came a year after death of PNS
MANILA—Many of the millennial Filipino journalists may be interested to know that the Philippines used to have its…
Season of the lens
“OH Lord, make me chaste, but not yet.” I chuckled when I first encountered those words taken from…
Documentaries on PHL intangible cultural heritage now on view
MANILA—The International Information and Networking Center for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific region (ICHCAP) under the auspices…
New facility for elderly inaugurated in Valenzuela City
AS part of its 23rd Charter Day celebration, the local government unit (LGU) of Valenzuela City recently inaugurated…
Optics is the word
IT was ludicrous. There they were, high government officials and the media all solemnly watching the boxes of…
Never too late: Covid pandemic propels older shoppers online
NEW YORK—In November, Paula Mont did something new: The 86-year-old, who hasn’t left her New Jersey senior living…
10 quincentennial markers to be unveiled in Eastern Visayas
TACLOBAN CITY—Ten historical markers will be unveiled in Leyte and Samar provinces between March and April this year…
NHCP orders halt to rehabilitation of heritage church plaza in Antique
SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique—The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) has ordered the Antique District Engineering…
Of titles and entitlements
Day in and day out, we address people of rank who answer to various honorific titles such as…
Nursing home disclosures taint Cuomo’s pandemic performance
ALBANY, N.Y.—New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the Covid-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying…
Technology executive refuses to slow down after retirement
After his retirement from the corporate world, Floyd Patrick Piedad decided to remain active in the technology sector…
Lets make ‘edible’ cities
Living in the city doesn’t pay. It costs. A large part of this cost is the expensive food…
Coronavirus cases drop at US homes for elderly and infirm
BIRMINGHAM, Alaska— Coronavirus cases have dropped at US nursing homes and other long-term care facilities over the past…
World’s second-oldest person survives Covid-19 at age 116
PARIS —A 116-year-old French nun who is believed to be the world’s second-oldest person has survived Covid-19 and…
Bulakenyos celebrate Blas Ople’s 94th birth anniversary
MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan—Bulakenyos paid tribute to one of the province’s illustrious sons—the late former Senate President and Foreign…
Gift from heaven
IT seems that in Metro Manila nowadays, consumers are increasingly becoming exasperated about the soaring prices of everything,…
Iloilo town to host biggest ‘Battle of Mactan’ diorama
ILOILO CITY—A private initiative led by a Miagao-based group is currently working double-time to complete the country’s biggest…