Description: Evolution of the North End through the eyes of long-time neighbors and merchants. John Polcari on changing his restaurant to cater to younger clientele. Photos of elderly residents.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1985
Description: Elderly patients remain in hospitals much too long because of bed shortage in nursing homes. Patient using walker. Unoccupied hospital bed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/21/1989
Description: Medicaid cutbacks will impair nursing homes. Patients, senior citizens, aging. Nurse administers eye drops to elderly woman. Charles Atkins, public welfare commissioner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1988
Description: Man speaks to a legislative subcommittee about extending Old Age Assistance Benefits to cover elderly people suffering from mental illness. He discussed the matter with Senator John F. Kennedy to add the endeavor to the Senator's mental Health Program for 1960.
Collection: WHDH
Description: State's over-85 population is large and increasing rapidly. Elderly woman using walker. Interior Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged. Elsie Frank. Senior citizens playing bingo.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/23/1990
Description: PUBLIC HEALTH COUNCIL MEETING AT HAHNEMANN HOSPITAL, CLOSING OF NURSING HOME
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/26/1985
Description: Senior citizens meet in Peabody to ask for help in keeping Medex rates affordable so they will be able to continue health care coverage. Audience of elderly people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/19/1990
Description: Prop 2 1/2 Chelsea, MA; storefronts, elderly people playing bocce. Janet Wu.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1981
Description: Rep. John McDonough proposes restructuring Medicaid eligibility such that elders be required to count value of home in their assets. McDonough on phone at his desk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/10/1990
Description: Interview with Richard Rowland, director of Massachusetts Association of Elder Americans, on state funding for homemaker services to assist senior citizens with housekeeping and errands and help them stay out of nursing homes.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/12/1977