Healthy Aging: For Older Adults, The Pandemic is Far from Over

• By: Nancy Harvey, LMSW Service Program for Older People (SPOP)
• January 17th, 2023
• burnout, COVID-19, despair, grief, isolation, LGBTQ, older adults, online learning, people of color, seclusion, socialization, telehealth, Winter 2023 Issue
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As we move into Year Three of the Covid-19 pandemic, older adults remain at high risk. Those over age 65 now account for 90% of COVID deaths – and many of those becoming ill are fully vaccinated and boosted. While many Americans feel confident to resume social activities and travel, our older...

From the Publisher: A Personal Journey From a Survivor of Suicide: “From the Depths of Despair to a Mission of Advocacy”

• By: Ira H. Minot, LMSW Mental Health News Education (MHNE)
• September 28th, 2020
• advocacy, depression, despair, divorce, ECT, fall 2020 issue, hope, hospitalization, medications, mental illness, recovery, stigma, suicide, survivor
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I was drifting in and out of consciousness in the emergency room. “You have to drink this,” someone was saying as they held a tall plastic cup to my lips, filled with a tasteless ink-black liquid. I later learned that the charcoal drink was given to me to absorb the toxic soup that was in my...