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Aging

Minnesotans are living longer and that trend is expected to continue. According to Minnesota State Demographic Center projections, the number of adults 65 years and older is anticipated to double between 2010 and 2030. That means 1 in 5 Minnesotans will be an older adult.

MPR News is looking at this shift and what it means to all of us.

Related: End in Mind delves into how our culture engages with loss, dying and death and offers resources to live more and fear less.

Faced with 20,000 dead nationwide, care homes seek shield from lawsuits

Faced with 20,000 dead nationwide, care homes seek shield from lawsuits

Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s nursing homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them emergency protection from claims of inadequate care.
by The Associated Press

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Pandemic aggravates Minnesota care center staffing shortages

Pandemic aggravates Minnesota care center staffing shortages

Staffing has become such a challenge at some Minnesota care facilities due to the coronavirus outbreak that a few aren't sure how they're going to get through the weekend, the head of an industry group said Friday.
by The Associated Press

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'Deadly phase': Minnesota's long-term care facilities fight to control coronavirus spread

'Deadly phase': Minnesota's long-term care facilities fight to control coronavirus spread

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities had hoped to keep the coronavirus mostly outside of their doors. But despite their efforts, COVID-19 cases have spread to more than 90 congregate care facilities. More than 70 percent of Minnesota's fatalities are traced to long-term care homes.
by Peter Cox

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Coronavirus entered my father’s nursing home and nobody warned me. I did not get the chance to save him.

Coronavirus entered my father’s nursing home and nobody warned me. I did not get the chance to save him.

Reporter Jan Ransom’s father was the fourth resident of his nursing home to get COVID-19. Nobody told her about the first, so she couldn’t move him before he got sick. “I think that’s very unfair,” her father told her a week before he died.

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St. Louis Park church uses 'buddy system' so older members may worship

St. Louis Park church uses 'buddy system' so older members may worship

In addition to putting services on web conference, many older members of the around 80-person congregation at Peace Presbyterian receive worship through an older technology — the telephone.
by Peter Cox

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Nursing homes on the front line of limiting coronavirus spread among Minnesotans

Nursing homes on the front line of limiting coronavirus spread among Minnesotans

More than half of the Minnesotans who died from the respiratory illness lived in group care facilities. As of Monday, there are 90 residents and 36 staff in long-term care facilities with confirmed COVID-19 cases. Seventeen people in long-term care settings have died from COVID-19.
by Peter Cox

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