For some homebound seniors, isolation can be unbearable. But as people grow old that is sometimes exactly what happens as friends and family pass away. The Little Brothers—Friends of the Elderly is a volunteer-based organization that attempts to break that…
Day: March 1, 2013
Senior Life: Retirement home helps seniors downsize
Drive around Boston on Sept. 1 and you’ll witness plenty of misery on the faces of college students moving. And moving only gets harder once you start cashing Social Security checks. But the Springhouse Retirement Community is attempting to ease…
Senior Life: Ethos wins major award for West Roxbury program
The Jamaica Plain-based elder services agency Ethos recently won a major award—including $10,000 in cash and $100,000 in capacity-building help—for its AgeWell West Roxbury program from the nonprofit consulting organization Root Cause. “This is an amazing opportunity for Ethos AgeWell…
Pop-up gallery fills empty storefront
HYDE SQ.—OGO Gallery, a temporary “pop-up” art exhibition space, is debuting today in a vacant storefront at 405 Centre St. The gallery is the brainchild of real estate agent and artist Eileen Taylor, who saw a chance to highlight artists…
New sheriff aims to keep people out of system
Indie business groups chart different paths
Jamaica Plain’s two new associations for local, independent businesses are committed to working together and even possibly even joining into one group in the future, their leaders said in a joint interview at the Gazette office. The two also joked…
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Editorial: Doctor’s orders at Martha Eliot
The opaque, top-down decision-making at Martha Eliot Health Center that is kicking out 5,000 adult patients and putting future service details up in the air has left the neighborhood speculating about what is really going on. The Gazette was among…
Editorial: A race we all win
It is great news that City Councilor John Connolly will run for mayor. Whether incumbent Mayor Thomas Menino runs again or comments from some other prominent role in civil life, this competition of ideas guarantees a serious discussion of Boston’s…
Letter: Brigham and Women’s had no role in health center change
As a clarification to your Feb. 15 editorial (“Health center changes a sick idea”) regarding the closure of the adult primary care services at the Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC), the decision to end patient care for adults at MEHC…