Prayers and thoughts, prayers and thoughts. I could paper the walls with them. But while enduring an eight-week, full-frontal immersion course in California’s broken nursing home system, our family needed hands-on help. In the middle of the night, I would awaken in tears. My friend Myra led me to Paula Wolfson, elder care consultant at…
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Jewish leaders fire questions at Covid expert as they plan reopenings
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