Cara Townsend Cara Townsend hit the ground running when she arrived in the Triad Tuesday, May 24, to establish an AARP office in the Triad as Associate State Director. She met a host of AARP volunteers at the Greensboro home of David and Catherine Sevier on Tuesday, then attended the May meeting of the PTRC’s Regional Advisory Council on Aging [...]
T. Lee Covington T. Lee Covington brings experience and dedication to his new position as Chief Operating Officer at Forsyth County’s Senior Services where he’s helping to roll out Senior Service’s new Aging with Purpose initiative. With a degree in business administration and finance from Elon College, he eschewed banking to work for nonprofits, serving adults with developmental disabilities and [...]
Paul Lawrence Paul Lawrence, an advocate for the aging and disabled in Forsyth County, is the newly elected chair of the 12- county Regional Advisory Council on Aging. He has served on the Council for several years after retiring as a social worker with Adult Protective Services at Forsyth County Department of Social Services. He also serves on the Home [...]
By Melissa Smith and Kristen Perry, Senior Services – Forsyth As Forsyth County prepares for the aging boom, Senior Services has embarked on a new initiative, Aging with Purpose, aimed at helping seniors age with meaning. The new program looks at the missing piece in care for seniors, the basic human need to have meaning as we age. Taking what [...]
Although there are hundreds, probably thousands, of articles, papers, and books on the aging of America, I want to share my views on its impact on the senior living community industry and, more specifically, the aging of our North Carolina population. Following a few facts and figures, I will share [...]
View the Digital Magazine A Letter From the Publisher... Raleigh. Whether you’re a native or new to the area, you know we’re growing at a rapid rate! As one of the top 50 biggest cities in America, Raleigh appears on many lists such as Forbes’ “Best Places to Retire” for the past five years and Money magazine which named [...]
View the Digital Magazine In this Issue... Art museums were uncommon 75 years ago when Gregory Ivy opened the Weatherspoon on the Woman’s College campus. It was the first art museum in the UNC system and second in the state, following the opening of Charlotte’s Mint Museum in 1936. Today it is a hidden gem in the art world [...]
View the Digital Magazine A Letter From the Publisher... Beer dates back to the dawn of civilization. The Code of Hammurabi, our oldest code of laws, regulated beer houses, enforcing the death penalty if brewers watered down the house brew. Egyptian Pharoah Khufu paid his slaves in beer while they built his resting place, the Pyramid at Giza. The [...]
Rep. Pricey Harrison joined actors Ted Dansen, Kate Walsh, and Sam Waterston in Washington recently in a lobbying effort against offshore drilling and seismic testing off the mid-Atlantic coast. She also received an award the evening before from Washington-based Oceana for her work fighting for the health of North Carolina’s coast. Almost a million and a half jobs and a [...]
