Paramedics and EMTs regularly handle the state’s worst medical traumas and receive wages similar to fast-food workers. (Photo via Shutterstock) By Eli Newman Paramedics and emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, face a harsh reality in Michigan — shrinking revenue...
By Eli Newman The arrival of an ambulance can make the difference between life and death. And in rural Michigan, there’s lots of real estate to cover, and every second counts. In a state speckled with “ambulance deserts,” from southeast Michigan to the Upper...
Caregiving is one of the most common experiences in adult life, but we don't often talk about it. Whether you're a young person caring for a parent or sibling, someone who left a career to care for a loved one, or a caregiver with hard-won advice to share, your...
By Robin Erb, Bridge Michigan Angelic Thomas holds a phone, looking through photos of her mother, Julia Williams. She died in 2023 at Mission Point Nursing & Physical Rehabilitation of Grandville after staffers failed to give her CPR, inspection reports...
‘Si ayudas a una persona, ayudas a una familia. Si ayudas a una familia, ayudas a un vecindario’.
La presión de ser un cuidador se vuelve más común. AARP estima que la cantidad de cuidadores no remunerados, aproximadamente uno de cada cinco adultos, ha aumentado casi un 25 % durante la última media década, a alrededor de 50 millones de personas.¿Qué soluciones pueden aliviar los múltiples peajes que pagan los cuidadores?
Olga Enger A summer storm in Michigan killed five residents, overturned trees, and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of people. In the Christmas week blizzard in 2022 that killed nearly 50 in Buffalo, most who died were older adults, undoubtedly raising...
This story was originally published by Capital & Main. When Ravina Turner, 53, started working for Michigan’s Home Help Program around 2015, she was just grateful to get paid. For years, she’d missed work to care for her daughter, Davina, who has Crohn’s disease...
By Robin Erb, Bridge Michigan Some Michigan cities are now charging nursing homes and other long-term care facilities to respond to nonemergency 911 calls made as a result of inadequate staffing at the facilities. “I don’t like the word ‘threat,’ but I guess it kind...
By Robin Erb and Simon D. Schuster Bridge Michigan The plea was desperate: Help! Lorena Brown gasped for air on Sept. 12, 2022, turning blue, at the SKLD Muskegon nursing home. Her roommate called for help from a nurse. The response: “Mind your own business.” Using a...
Darryl Johnson, 62, likened his last year to the biblical Book of Job. The Ypsilanti resident is going through a divorce from his wife of over 33 years and has recently lost his job. With his children grown and away from home, he said it’s been lonely. “I sit in this...
By Marty Fischhoff First of two-part series: Financial Concerns They are not easy conversations for caregivers to have with their loved ones. They deal with sensitive subjects – like health and wealth, life and death, wills and trusts. Ultimately, they mean...
A study released this year by AARP and the National Alliance for Caregiving estimated 63 million Americans are caregivers. That number is 45% higher than it was ten years ago. Among them is Linda Cline of Northville. She’s a spousal caregiver to her husband, Randy...
Reporters Erica Hobbs (from left), LaToya Cross, Stephanie Steinberg and Allie Jacobs with editor Monica Williams and photographer Alejandro Ugalde Sandoval at the ceremony on Wednesday night. (Not pictured: reporter Randiah Camille Green) Reporters in the New York...
All of the unmarried adults in a study by Florida State University were at least 50% less likely to develop dementia than their married counterparts, challenging beliefs that marriage protects against declines in cognitive function. (Shutterstock) Being married has...
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