Monthly Archives: May, 2023

Checkup From the Neck-Up, Episode 5 – Dr. Sandra Tars on Senior Isolation

Published - May 2, 2023

This May, public media across New York State, including WCNY, are focusing on the issue of Senior Isolation. In this edition of Checkup From the Neck-Up, Dr. Rich O’Neill talks with clinical psychologist and gerontologist Dr. Sandra Tars about factors leading to senior isolation, its consequences, and how we can help our elderly. Local resources designed to help overcome this problem are listed below: Onondaga County Aging Services InterFaith Works Senior Services Salvation Army Senior Services OASIS Volunteer Center Central NY Psychological Association Aurora of CNY Support for Checkup From the Neck-up on Community FM provided by:    

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Built to Serve – Addressing Senior Isolation in CNY

Published - May 2, 2023

Senior Isolation impacts a wide range of older adults. A recent study suggests as many as one-third of older Americans are lonely, and a quarter are considered socially isolated. This month, Built to Serve presents two local programs designed to deal with that problem. Host Charles Roberts speaks with Serena Jackson of the Americorps Senior Companions Program, hosted by InterFaith Works; and with Crystal Taylor, Director of Senior Services for the Syracuse-area Salvation Army. This May, public media across New York State, including WCNY, are participating in Aging Together in New York, and effort to focus attention on the senior

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Celebrate Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month with WCNY!

Published - May 1, 2023

Tune in all month long for special TV programming celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Asian Americans: Breaking Ground In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines, and beyond. Barred by anti-Asian laws they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants,” yet they build railroads, dazzle on the silver screen, and take their fight for equality to the U.S. Supreme Court. Watch Monday, May 8 at 9 p.m. on WCNY-TV Asian Americans: A Question of Loyalty An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands in Asia. Those loyalties

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