Even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, according to a nationwide study, an estimated 25% of adults over 65 were socially isolated. Loneliness and isolation can lead to serious health challenges including increased rates of anxiety, suicide and depression, a 50% increase...
If you have attended one of Ethos’ Community Café programs, you may be eligible to receive coupon books, worth $25 dollars, to be used for fresh produce at participating farmers markets. Ethos will begin distributing farmers market coupons on...
This week, Alexandra Hill-Paduano, RD, Ethos’ resident Dietitian, provides some simple grocery shopping and menu planning ideas and recipes to help seniors minimize the number of trips to the store they need to make while practicing social distancing and...
This week's edition of Ethos Live features Alie Hill-Paduano, RD, our Dietician discussing food safety, the precautions you should take at the grocery store and ideas for healthy meals.
This edition of our Ethos Live series features a Conversation with Ethos CEO Valerie Frias. Valerie provides an update on how Ethos staff and volunteers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As a result of the the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) passed by congress in March, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services released new guidance with regards to paid sick leave and Personal Care Attendants.
We are reaching out to you to pass along new guidance, the City of Boston issued yesterday, regarding stricter measures being put in place for social and physical distancing in the city.
Ethos, because of the work we do to support older adults and the disabled, is classified as an “Essential Service” and will remain fully operational through the duration of this crisis unless otherwise directed.
In response to the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, restaurant closures, bans on large gatherings and the growing social isolation of our most vulnerable Bostonians, Ethos has begun to broadcast some of its programs, such as health and wellness presentations, conversations...
As the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic grows both globally and in our own community, Ethos is taking drastic and varied measures to ensure the safety and well-being of Boston’s older adults and disabled residents.