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- Discounts abound for those over 50
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- A new class of volunteers who really SHINE!
- How is your brain aging?
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- The LifePath Family: Getting to Know Leanne Jacobs-Rohan
- Learn vital, self-care skills at Powerful Tools for Caregivers!
- Medicare Open Enrollment Begins October 15
- Six myths about older adult falls
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- Take the Driver’s Seat
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- A Bountiful Season
- Senior Finance Matters: Pension Counseling and Information Projects
- Upcoming Franklin County Flu Clinics
- Looking back on 40 years
- November – A month to care for caregivers
- A Thanksgiving offering for local seniors
- Be Sweet to Your Feet if You Have Diabetes
- What does Meals on Wheels mean to Jack Lynch?
- Shop at World Eye Bookshop & support LifePath!
- Senior Finance Matters: Grandma & Grandpa as Santa Claus
- You’ve got a four-legged friend in Diggity Dogs
- A little love for Meals on Wheels
- Come learn what it’s like to be a Benefits Counselor
- With Options Counseling, the choice is yours
- Senior Finance Matters: Good debt vs. bad debt
- Grow a healthy family tree
- "Love Letters" for Meals on Wheels
- Northfield Mount Hermon School students keep tradition with benefit concert for Meals on Wheels
- Home Care Services provide a custom plan of care
- Assistance for older adults returning to work after retirement
- Your volunteering vocation is calling!
- Community members send love to homebound elders
- Work in your community as a SHINE volunteer
- Slippers or no slippers?
- Swift Walkers go for gold
- Eldercare Q&A
- Heroines and Heroes
- “People I could trust”
- Memory + love = Meals on Wheels Walkathon Team, the Clogston Cloggers
- 2015 Meals on Wheels Walkathon awarded $500 “Share the Love” grant by Meals on Wheels America
- Meals on Wheels Walkathon helps bridge funding gap for elder health
- Four new Supportive Housing sites open in Franklin County
- Happy 30th Birthday, Warwick Luncheon Club!
- Together we have the power to prevent elder abuse
- Older residents of Greenfield to conduct “Healthy Aging” community research study
- Be empowered with Healthy Living
- Tips to stay safe on hot summer days
- Become an volunteer Ombudsman at summer training in July
- Franklin County Home Care seeks to meet unmet needs with Rides for Health, calls for volunteers
- Understanding your electric bill, part 1
- Understanding your electric bill, part 2
- Understanding your electric bill, part 3
- SHINE: Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone
- President Obama to host White House Conference on Aging on July 13
- Free tool helps remove barriers to communication in emergencies
- Eldercare Q&A
- Finding the way home with Care Transitions
- Have you made an emergency plan for your pets?
- Eldercare Q&A
- “Healthy Living” offers opportunities for community leaders, physicians, and those interested in leading healthier lives
- What is acupuncture?
- Free energy events for seniors and their caregivers
- When your chimney sweep is blowing smoke
- Shape up your home with help from Benefits Counseling
- Money-saving tips for seniors
- Happy Grandparents Day!
- September is Pain Awareness Month
- Better your balance and prevent falls with upcoming workshop
- For World Alzheimer’s Day, the story of a local caregiver
- “Active Aging in the Valley” helps locals stay young in heart, body, and mind
- October is White Cane Awareness Month
- Long-term care residents honored during Residents’ Rights Month
- Become an volunteer Ombudsman at autumn training in November
- “On Being Transgender and Growing Older: Personal, Health, and Legal Perspectives”
- Alzheimer’s: How a caregiver can help to maintain a dying dignity
- Join Marvin Kelley in becoming a Rides for Health volunteer
- Before leaving the hospital: Your discharge planning checklist
- A Primer on Pronouns
- Medication safety: Safely disposing of medications
- Alternatives to traditional restraints
- Your gift gives purpose & meaning to Brian & Dee
- Medication safety: Safely storing medications in your home
- "Love Letters" for Meals on Wheels, 2016
- Mary Johnson and her team of resource consultants are here to help you!
- "Love Letters" for Meals on Wheels, 2016
- Spring 2016 Volunteer Training: Long-Term Care Ombudsman
- Become a volunteer with SHINE! Spring Training 2016 begins April 7
- May is Older Americans Month
- Eldercare Q&A
- Eldercare Q&A
- Options Counseling helps you plan and find solutions for your unique needs
- Eldercare Q&A
- My Life, My Health
- Eldercare Q&A
- Book delivery services from local libraries
- Protecting People and Their Pets
- Protecting People and Their Pets
- Eldercare Q&A
- Supportive Housing
- SHINE: Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone
- Become an volunteer Ombudsman at spring training in June
- On the road to make a difference
- Together, we have the power to prevent elder abuse
- Free energy events for seniors and their caregivers in early October
- Six walking tips – or how to move more in no time!
- Images of health & wellness in our community
- Dear Readers: Thank you for being there in 2016
- Volunteer Benefits Counselors find meaning in giving back, and you can, too!
- Eldercare Q&A
- Tax season is upon us!
- Help spread compassion and hope this February
- There’s still time to register for the Rainbow Elders winter breakfast
- The Meals on Wheels Walkathon turns 25
- When you’ve been blessed, you want to give back
- Are you fully benefiting from your prescription drug coverage?
- End-of-year generosity toward caregivers
- Volunteer Ombudsmen support residents of long-term care facilities, and so can you!
- “I do this because of my mom”
- Highlighting a local resource on World Cancer Day
- SHINE: Serving the Health Insurance Needs of Everyone
- Eldercare Q&A
- Meals on Wheels is much more than a meal
- At the Northfield Senior Center, you can travel the world without spending a dime
- Talented teens play live jazz and classical for a cause
- Become a walker and support 25 years of love for elders
- On the road to make a difference
- Spiritual nourishment in community
- Six spring workshops for grandparents raising grandchildren
- The Eventide Singers: “Bringing joy and comfort to people who are homebound or ill or at the end of their life"
- Thank you, Northfield Mount Hermon!
- With the Personal Care Attendant program, the choice is yours
- Not just a meal
- Special notice about fuel assistance
- Happy 40th Birthday, Bernardston Senior Dining Center!
- Palliative care improves quality of life
- Caring as a family tradition
- Lower your utility bills and get help with affording your heating fuel
- LifePath’s “Love Letters for Elders” Campaign, 2017
- The Rainbow Elders invite you to an intergenerational gathering with special guest, Robyn Ochs
- Two ways to improve your health this spring
- Local kids care about elders
- Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Charlemont Luncheon Club
- Team Food Brood is making memories as a family
- Ombudsman volunteers provide peace of mind to residents of long-term care facilities
- Rides for Health volunteers make a difference to local elders
- Eldercare Q&A
- Clinical & Support Options, Inc., to host 15th Annual Mental Health and Wellness Fair
- Eldercare Q&A
- Need help at home? Meet local personal care attendants at Greenfield event
- Betty Wilson proves that you’re never too old to be of service to your neighbors
- The Franklin County Bar Association helps community with essential legal services
- The Western Mass Elder Care Conference 2017
- LifePath bids farewell to Turners Falls, moves main office to Greenfield
- Learn how to protect yourself against scams and identity theft
- Eldercare Q&A
- Two opportunities in May to find answers to your legal questions
- A community gathering for friends and neighbors
- Together, we have the power to prevent elder abuse
- You’re invited to “Much Ado About Lilies” – A Summer Picnic with the Rainbow Elders!
- Hearing amplification systems: Options for living with hearing loss
- Better your balance and prevent falls with upcoming workshop
- An afternoon at the New Salem Luncheon Club
- “Get Up and Go” – A key to rehabilitation and regaining health
- A wish and a rod bring friendship and outdoor fun to people with disabilities
- Farmers markets for seasonal and year-round shopping
- Find help for low vision
- Enjoy a summer picnic with the Rainbow Elders at “Much Ado About Lilies”
- “Like someone lighted a match under me”
- Medicaid cuts could hurt seniors most
- Determining clinical assessment & eligibility for MassHealth programs
- Do you have a chronic disease? Take charge of your health with a workshop from Healthy Living!
- Do social ties affect our health? Exploring the biology of relationships
- Extreme heat precautions
- A new class of volunteers who really SHINE!
- Eldercare Q&A
- Do social ties affect our health? Exploring the biology of relationships
- Climbing out of a loved one’s clutter together
- Do social ties affect our health? Exploring the biology of relationships
- The musings of a recovering finder/keeper
- Free summer caregiver training for family and friends of those with dementia starts August 22
- Find the way home with Care Transitions
- Your choice to stay at home
- How your eating habits affect your health
- Benefits counselors have helped 1,670 seniors and people with disabilities access funds – you could be next!
- Have you read the Home Repair Guide?
- Eldercare Q&A
- “Savvy Caregiver” offers special training for friends and family caring for loved ones with dementia
- Mark your calendars! Two free energy events to enlighten seniors about savings
- Keeping your gut in check
- Walk Franklin County
- “Free As I Want to Be” in Greenfield
- Keeping your gut in check
- Adult Family Care: Creating families, changing lives
- On the road to make a difference
- Steps to fall proofing your home, part 1
- Walk Franklin County
- Upcoming Franklin County flu clinics
- Steps to fall proofing your home, part 2
- A Will for the Woods
- Free energy events for seniors and their caregivers
- Local support for people with dementia and their loves ones
- Steps to fall proofing your home, part 3
- The Silverline keeps you in-the-know about local resources
- Walk Franklin County
- Still time to register for “Energy Savings for Seniors”
- Walk Franklin County
- Green burial: An earth-conscious option for individuals planning their end-of-life arrangements
- “Power to the People: An Advocacy Workshop for LGBTIQA Elders” set to take place October 26
- Will you join us for lunch this week?
- FTC Consumer Information
- Eldercare Q&A
- Volunteer Ombudsmen support residents of local long-term care facilities, and so can you!
- Enjoy the great outdoors with assistance from “Outdoor Access”
- Coping with grief
- Coping with grief
- Exploration through art at Riverside Industries
- Where your heart gets super-charged
- Medical appointment transportation assistance information for local residents
- A bountiful season: local seniors benefit from farmer’s market coupons
- A Thanksgiving offering for local seniors
- Eldercare Q&A
- Family caregivers refresh and renew thanks to caregiver grants
- A Caregiver’s Story:
- Offering help around the holidays
- Join the rest of the world this Tuesday
- Do you know how to SHINE?
- Eldercare Q&A
- Having trouble getting your bills paid on time? Need help balancing your checkbook?
- Bigger gap than ever to bridge so elders and people with disabilities keep a passion for life!
- Talking about driving with an older driver
- Congregate Housing
- Eldercare Q&A
- Supportive Housing
- Keeping feet healthy this winter
- Social Security Column
- Rainbow Elders are “Looking Forward” to a breakfast social in Greenfield
- The CHART Program: An innovation in health care
- Set your mind to something new this coming year
- Would you care to Contra Dance?
- When caregivers need a break, we’re a phone call away
- Still time to register for Looking Forward: A Winter Breakfast with the Rainbow Elders
- Dear Readers: Thanks for being there in 2017
- Mary Johnson and her team of Resource Consultants are here to help you!
- Eldercare Q&A
- Popular caregiver training for family and friends of those with dementia returns in 2018
- Volunteer Ombudsmen support residents of local long-term care facilities, and so can you!
- Our community says: “We want to keep walking for Meals on Wheels!”
- Halting hypothermia
- Ramon Financial, a “local hero” business of Franklin County
- Compassionate, dynamic, and unstoppable!
- Here's something huge to celebrate...
- Meals on Wheels connects Steve Bathory-Peeler with our community
- Ron Smith says, “Don’t miss concert at Northfield Mount Hermon!”
- Keeping Fit & Nimble
- Tax season is upon us! Here’s what seniors need to know to save money
- Volunteer benefits counselors find meaning in giving back, and you can, too!
- They served their country and community – now it’s their turn
- Home Care Services from LifePath provide a custom plan of care
- Teamwork makes independence possible
- Experts lower “high” blood pressure numbers
- Save the date! You’re invited to the Sixth Annual Intergenerational LGBTIQA Gathering & Dinner
- Welcome Carol Foote to the Walkathon Team!
- Walking together for healthy friendships and a healthy community
- The problem that piles up
- “Deep down you know you’re doing something good for people”
- The income tax filing deadline is right around the bend - here’s what seniors need to know to save money
- Why do we need the Walkathon?
- “What has changed, what is similar, and where we're going”
- The problem that piles up
- This National Volunteer Week, LifePath sends a big THANK YOU to our volunteers!
- Meals on Wheels drivers, everyday heroes
- Thank you to our wonderful volunteers!
- Have you heard about healthcare scams?
- Greenfield Savings Bank matches new walker pledges up to $7,000
- Herb Michelson: “They've been a high spot in my later life.”
- Thank you for making the 2018 Meals on Wheels Walkathon a success!
- Free workshops to offer support to caregivers and elders start in May
- Sound Health, Part 1
- South Health, Part 2
- Clinical & Support Options, Inc., to host 16th annual Mental Health and Wellness Fair
- “Sound Health,” Part 3
- Have you heard about imposter scams?
- The Western Mass Elder Care Conference 2018
- The rainbow! Understanding diverse expressions of gender, sexuality, and relationships
- Free workshop to offer support and strategies for hope and independence
- You’re invited to a summer picnic with the Rainbow Elders!
- Together, we have the power to prevent elder abuse
- Older adults gain new job skills when matched with local nonprofits through employment program
- Preparation tips for Atlantic Hurricane Season from MEMA
- "Summer's lease hath all too short a date…”
- Village Neighbors offers a community design for aging in place
- Dealing with trauma & recovering from frightening events
- An astounding commitment to elders
- Health New England supports Meals on Wheels program for local elders
- Shelburne Dining Center celebrates 45 years of food and company!
- Elders fill up on fresh fruits and veggies from local farmers markets
- Healthy habits can lengthen life
- Free training: Become an advocate for elders!
- Have you heard about “You’ve Won!” scams?
- Why should you become a Rides for Health volunteer?
- Rainbow Elders Luncheon Club to begin serving monthly meals on September 20
- Benefits counselors have helped 2,022 elders and people with disabilities access funds – you could be next!
- Have you read the Home Repair Guide?
- Presentations on the VA Aid and Attendance Program for elders to take place this fall
- Popular caregiver training for family and friends of those with dementia returns in October
- Solar Access: Affordable home heating & cooling
- Upcoming Franklin County flu clinics - 2018 season
- Just a few days left to sign up for the first Rainbow Elders Luncheon Club meal!
- If you're looking for a way to make the world around you a little better, check out these two volunteer training opportunities - and pass it forward to a friend!
- Slips, trips, and near misses: How to keep your balance and reduce the risk of falls
- Need help fixing up your home to age in place?
- How does the Money Management Program at LifePath help our community?
- Three ways to support residents of long-term care facilities this month
- October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Village Neighbors to hold Grand Opening Party on October 14
- Rainbow Elders Luncheon Club to host presentation on “Love and Sexuality”
- Some key moments in LGBTIQA* History
- LifePath to offer free support groups in the West County and the North Quabbin
- Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information
- Free, local resources for people with chronic pain
- A Thanksgiving offering for local seniors
- A bountiful season: Local seniors benefit from farmers market coupons
- Jean Adams ages in place with help from the Personal Care Attendant Program
- Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information
- Greenfield Savings Bank lends itself to LifePath in many forms
- Celebrating 30 years of dedication
- End of year opportunities for generosity
- “Share the Love” with Meals on Wheels to benefit local elders
- Healthy Incentives Program continues to boost SNAP benefits
- Oral health tips for caregivers
- Dear Readers: Thanks for making us a part of your week in 2018
- Managing Pain Series
- Managing Pain Series
- Managing Pain Series
- Local educational opportunities for older people to consider in 2019 in Western Mass
- LifePath’s Meals on Wheels Walkathon season steps off with a call for sponsors
- Finding meaning in giving back as a volunteer benefits counselor
- South County Senior Center Team Captain Sue Corey, seven-year top fundraising team, recounts elements of success
- Peer support for people caring for a loved one with dementia
- Plan Your Plate Series
- Rainbow Elders to offer “Flower Power in February” brunch & workshop
- Free training: Become a volunteer advocate for elders!
- “Plan Your Plate” Series
- Northfield Mount Hermon benefit concert for Meals on Wheels promises to be a toe-tapping stunner
- “Plan Your Plate” Series
- Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH) Benefit Concert for Meals on Wheels
- The income tax filing deadline is approaching - here’s what seniors need to know to save money for tax year 2018
- Okay, walkers, it’s time to get active for Meals on Wheels!
- Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information
- Dear Readers: A farewell & an invitation
- Two volunteer opportunities to help make the world a better place
- Thanks, Northfield Mount Hermon, for a lovely Meals on Wheels benefit concert!
- Movement workshop and dinner for LGBT elders comes to Greenfield
- Walkathon 2019: Poet’s Seat Health Care Center Recognizes Value of the Meals on Wheels Program
- Why participate in LifePath’s 27th annual Meals on Wheels Walkathon?
- Greenfield Savings Bank will again encourage new walkers with matching funds up to $7,000
- In Pursuit of a Life Less Cluttered
- LifePath’s Meals on Wheels Kitchen: Experience for the Ages
- Sleep and Health
- Walkathon Season’s Fever Pitch
- National Volunteer Week 2019
- The Benefits of Volunteering
- “Savvy Caregiver” offers special training for friends and family caring for loved ones with dementia
- Thank you for making local elders a priority through your participation in the 2019 Meals on Wheels Walkathon!
- Relationships and Health
- First Annual Massachusetts Malnutrition Awareness Week
- Clinical & Support Options, Inc., to host 17th annual Mental Health and Wellness Fair
- Volunteer Reception to Celebrate National Volunteer Week
- Volunteering helps to fulfill old dreams and find new ones
- The Rainbow! Understanding Diverse Expressions of Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships
- Real ID or Standard Massachusetts Driver’s License or ID Card: Which to Choose When It’s Time to Renew
- Nutrition Notes: Nutrition for a Healthy Brain
- Learn How To Live Fully With Diabetes: Join Our Diabetes Self-Management Workshop!
- Caregivers: Caring for Memories
- SPAN Can Help Care For Your Pets While You Receive Medical Help
- World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
- Tornado Safety
- Transportation Resources for Seniors and People with Disabilities
- Elder Protective Services on Berkshire Senior TV
- Seniors and Caregivers in the Technology Arena
- LifePath Holds Thank You Party for 2019 Meals on Wheels Walkathon
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