Zamboanga Peninsula senior citizens urged to get vaccinated
ZAMBOANGA CITY—The Department of Health (DOH) in Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) has urged senior citizens anew on Wednesday to submit themselves for vaccination against Covid-19.
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ZAMBOANGA CITY—The Department of Health (DOH) in Region 9 (Zamboanga Peninsula) has urged senior citizens anew on Wednesday to submit themselves for vaccination against Covid-19.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Sweden, which has stood out among European nations for its comparatively hands-off response to the pandemic, announced Wednesday it will be offering a third vaccine shot to people 65 and over, as well as to health-care workers and nursing home staff.
GENERAL SANTOS CITY—Health authorities in Region 12 (Soccsksargen) urged local government units (LGUs) to further accelerate the vaccination against Covid-19 for their vulnerable elderly population.
MY earliest connection with the world of poetry was during my boyhood. At age five, I used to declaim during our family reunions as well as social gatherings in our local parish. My Tatang loved to heave me up on a chair in front of everybody to display my prodigious prowess in the spoken word. From memory, with accompanying choreographed gestures, I would recite the poems of Amado Yuson and Jose Corazon de Jesus. People would never fail to shed a tear or two whenever I would recite lines from such iconic poems as “Ang Pamana” and “Ang Pagbabalik.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Findings released today from a new Humana Inc. national poll indicate the extent to which seniors’ health—and their values related to health—have been affected since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. Overall, four-in-five seniors reported that their lives have changed since the start of the pandemic. For many, these changes may have a lasting effect on what they value going forward.
PARIS—Worried that the flu and Covid-19 could trigger a wintertime double-whammy of new infections and deaths, France is forging ahead with a nationwide vaccination and booster-shot program against both diseases, offering simultaneous jabs to millions of at-risk people.
CEBU CITY—Poverty alleviation program beneficiaries in a small community in San Remigio, a third-class municipality in northern Cebu province, draw their inspiration from a septuagenarian who is a former school teacher who now spends her life as a volunteer.
According to psychotherapist and author David Richo, trust, which he calls “a reliance on reliability,” lies at the heart of all relationships, be it personal, professional or otherwise.
The first new Alzheimer’s treatment in more than 20 years was hailed as a breakthrough when regulators approved it more than four months ago, but its rollout has been slowed by questions about its price and how well it works.
ILOILO CITY—The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has released cash gifts to 131 centenarians from Western Visayas from February to September this year.
The word banal is often used to describe something that is obvious, ordinary, or as the dictionary puts it: “so lacking in originality.”
BRASILIA, Brazil—Irene Castilho, 71, didn’t even have a day to grieve after her husband died of Covid-19. She was sick, too, coughing and struggling to breathe; he was barely gone when she started using his oxygen mask. The same day, on March 22, she was admitted to a hospital in Sao Paulo.
IN celebration of the Elderly Filipino Week, opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima honored the contributions of elderly Filipinos in shaping today’s youth and molding them to be responsible members of the society.
The growing number and share of older persons in Asia and the Pacific represent success stories of declining fertility and increasing longevity; the result of advances in social and economic development. This demographic transition is taking place against the backdrop of the accelerating Fourth Industrial Revolution. But Covid-19, with its epicenter now in Asia and the Pacific, has exacerbated the suffering of older persons in vulnerable situations and demonstrated the fragility of this progress.
She lived a life of adventure that spanned two continents. She fell in love with a World War II fighter pilot, barely escaped Europe ahead of Benito Mussolini’s fascists, ground steel for the US war effort and advocated for her disabled daughter in a far less enlightened time. She was, her daughter said, someone who didn’t make a habit of giving up.
Senior citizen and Mandaluyong resident Maria Lina Porciuncula Grecia had observed how her husband, a loyal Smart customer since 2003, has never had any signal issue with his mobile service. This is the complete opposite of her own mobile service, which, according to her, has always been problematic.
IN celebration of the Elderly Filipino Week, three-term senator, now Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda renewed her call for stronger implementation of Republic Act 9994, or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010, which she principally authored.
LEGAZPI CITY—Some 18,500 senior citizens and 2,500 tricycle drivers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic have received cash aid from the city government amounting to P30.45 million.
Richard is a nephew of ours and he is now in the crux of a crisis. His wife got a serious case of Covid-19 while delivering their child. The infant has a serious physical defect and has been operated on. So far, she is infection-free. However, his mother-in-law and elder child are Covid positive and are in home quarantine. Poor fellow, he shuttles back and forth attending to the needs of the patients at the hospital and at home. His own mother can’t assist him because she too is watching over an 80-plus old grandmother who is also frail and sickly. Besides, as a senior citizen, she is not allowed to be in the hospital because of prevailing health protocols.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the use of booster shots in the US for people at high risk of contracting or falling seriously ill from Covid-19, overruling a narrower recommendation from the agency’s advisers and clearing the way for a widespread vaccination campaign.
BRASILIA, Brazil—A Brazilian health-care provider focused on elderly people has been targeted by a Senate investigation for allegedly obliging its doctors to prescribe drugs that aren’t effective in treating Covid-19.
To boost their immunity, almost 700 permanent, casual, and job order senior citizen employees of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) have received flu vaccines.
The House Special Committee on Senior Citizens on Tuesday approved in principle the proposed “Income Tax Exemption for Senior Citizens Act.”
“Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are.” These words are attributed to Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of The Physiology of Taste, became famous as an epicure and gastronome.
ROCKLAND, Maine—When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine’s rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few women were harvesting lobsters.
The US moved a step closer Wednesday to offering booster doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to senior citizens and others at high risk from the virus as the Food and Drug Administration signed off on the targeted use of extra shots.
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Two weeks ago or so, Aurit, my wife, was again looking listless and disturbed. Was it another acquaintance that passed away due to Covid? It’s been a month of one sad news after another.
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