By Ingrid Schnader When Jacqueline DeMarco’s cousin Shay McNamee died from ovarian cancer, DeMarco said, she made sense of it by vowing not to let the loss to her family be in vain. That’s why DeMarco and other people who were close to McNamee run in races such as the Laura Crandall Brown Foundation’s Head Over Teal run. Their group, Shay’s Rays, is one of the biggest teams … [Read more...]
Fighting Senior Exploitation: Program Seeks to Inform and Empower Seniors
By June Mathews You’ve heard it before: “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” But that hasn’t prevented unscrupulous individuals from generating huge profits with too-good-to-be-true scams specifically geared toward older Americans. The last generation to do business on the strength of a handshake, today’s seniors are often more trusting of others and easier to … [Read more...]