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This week on Eastern Standard:
Kentucky has hundreds of nursing homes caring for some of the Commonwealth’s most vulnerable residents. Questions have persisted about staffing, inspections, neglect and whether government oversight is adequate to protect the people living in them. Lexington Herald-Leader Government Accountability Reporter John Cheves has been examining those issues for years. His latest reporting focuses on nursing homes with repeated serious deficiencies — including facilities singled out by the federal government for additional scrutiny.
More than two-thirds of American adults, 40 or older, say they worry about their brain health and about developing Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia. That’s according to a 20-26 survey from the Alzheimer’s Association. For the latest in their series on “Healthy Aging,” Bill Goodman and Dr. Jeff Foxx talk about the latest developments in Alzheimer's research with Dr. Gregory Jicah with the University of Kentucky Alzheimer's Disease Research Center.
So the kids have been in school for a little over a month now. How’s it going? How about math? It can be a struggle for students and parents. And as hear in the latest from education contributor Brigitte Blom and her guest, the Hechinger Report's Holly Korbey, there’s a movement among educators to make the math taught in our schools easier for all to digest with a clear eye on how number crunching is a vital lifelong skill.
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