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Affluent Seniors Drive Home Care Market

By Dianne Finch on Tuesday, April 10, 2007.

New Hampshire’s senior population is expected to more than double by 2020.

And companies are rushing in to the state to meet demands for in-home personal care by graying baby boomers.

But these companies cater to private-pay clients. The services are harder to come by for lower-income seniors.

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The Exodus of the Young?

By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, April 10, 2007.

When people point to a graying Granite State, they not only worry about having more "older" people, but some suggest, what's equally as bad is the departure of many of New Hampshire's youth. Some are concerned that New Hampshire's twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings are leaving in droves due to high housing prices, a lack of entry-level or "first career jobs" and that New Hampshire isn't as "cool" a place to live as Boston or New York. If this is true, the lack of a younger generation could possibly have as big of a negative effect for the state as the influx of older people. We'll look at how and why younger Granite Staters are staying or leaving, what implications it may have, and what some in New Hampshire are doing to ensure residents in their 20s and 30s stay in the state.


Guests

  • Stephen Reno, Chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire
  • Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor at UNH and Senior Fellow at the Carsey Institute
  • Kate Benway, Marketing Retention Specialist for the City of Manchester
  • Jim Wagner, Former Vice President and General Manager of the North Country mills. Currently he's working with the Coos County communities on community and economic development initiatives
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Graying of the Granite State: Memory Loss

By Liz Bulkley on Tuesday, April 10, 2007.

Tonight on the Front Porch, NHPR's "Graying of the Granite State" series continues with a look at memory loss. As we grow older, almost all of us have to deal with failing recollections. Not every case is extreme, but dementia and Alzheimer's can be the hardest thing a family must go through. We'll explore memory loss through the eyes of a playwright who's work tells the story of an elderly couple dealing with Alzheimer's disease. And we'll talk with a Dartmouth researcher about why, exactly, our memories begin to fail as we get older.

Our Guests Are:

  • Barbara Hammond, author of the play "Norman and Beatrice: A Marriage in Two Acts". It tells the story of an elderly couple dealing with Alzheimer's disease.
  • Dr. William Kelly, associate professor of Psychology at Dartmouth College.

Barbara will be sharing part of her play and leading a discussion about it as part of the Littleton Senior Center's series "Mindful Things: Exploring Memory Loss through Science and Art."

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