Lydia McFarlane

1 week ago | wvia.org | Roger DuPuis |Lydia McFarlane

NEWS VOICESWelcome to News Voices, a weekly feature where members of the WVIA News team will talk with each other — and sometimes sources — about key things we've learned in recent stories we have been working on. Today, WVIA News' Roger DuPuis and Lydia McFarlane talk about SCI Waymart's program that trains inmates to care for fellow inmates in hospice care. This is a transcript of their conversation as it aired on WVIA Radio. ***ROGER: You're listening to Morning Edition here on WVIA Radio.

1 week ago | wvia.org | Lydia McFarlane

Northeast Pennsylvania-based Maternal and Family Health Services (MFHS) provides health and nutrition services to women, children, families and other agencies across a large swath of Pennsylvania, but some of those services could be in jeopardy. Trump administration scrutiny of the federal Title X program, which funds family planning services, means MFHS and similar organizations already are receiving substantially less money to continue providing those services, and future funding is in doubt.

1 week ago | fhicommunications.com | Lydia McFarlane

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The room, decorated with an under-the-sea theme, had a balloon arch decked out with streamers meant to look like jellyfish and a cloud of clear balloons mimicking ocean bubbles. Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. Everyone here has a degree of memory loss or is a caregiver for someone with memory loss.

2 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Lydia McFarlane

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pa.The room, decorated with an under-the-sea theme, had a balloon arch decked out with streamers meant to look like jellyfish and a cloud of clear balloons mimicking ocean bubbles. Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. Everyone here has a degree of memory loss or is a caregiver for someone with memory loss.

2 weeks ago | oregonlive.com | Lydia McFarlane

Rob Kennedy mingled with about a dozen other people in a community space in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania. The room, decorated with an under-the-sea theme, had a balloon arch decked out with streamers meant to look like jellyfish and a cloud of clear balloons mimicking ocean bubbles. Kennedy comes to this memory cafe twice a month since being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in his late 50s. Everyone here has a degree of memory loss or is a caregiver for someone with memory loss.