Gerry Senior Citizens GERRY — The Gerry Senior Citizens, known as the Rodeo Senior Citizens, gathered recently for a luncheon and a guest speaker from the UCAN City Mission of Jamestown. Jeff Rotunda, executive director of the mission, gave a history and the activities of the mission. The ...

Silver Creek Seniors meet SILVER CREEK — The Silver Creek Seniors met on Tuesday, Aug. 10 with 34 members and guests present. Pauline Flitt read “God’s Grace” and offered a blessing on those gathered and the food provided. Lunch was ready and hot right at 1 so attendees ate before the ...

Have you ever thought about your own safety in your home as you age? It is something you should consider as early as your 40s and 50s. Those who plan to live out many years in your home as you age- you need to start looking critically at your environment. I am talking about steps and ...

Rudyard Kipling once said “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” What you say matters. Sugar diabetes is an outdated and informal term for diabetes mellitus. Until terms were standardized, diabetes could be called just about anything such as “The Sugar” and ...

The New York State Senior Medicare Patrol educates beneficiaries to prevent, detect and report Medicare fraud. Although there are many health care fraud scams, three common scams are: ¯ Vaccine Card Scams — fake vaccine cards on being sold on social media for those who do not want to be ...

As we start to open up our senior centers and congregate meal sites, I am getting questions from older adults about how vaccines work. Can we mandate that everyone who comes into our building be vaccinated? And are we protected from the Delta variant of COVID-19? I will try to answer these ...