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.
Social distancing. Self-isolation. Stay-at-home orders. Older adults are disproportionately affected by the coronavirus outbreak. According to the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Data Report, 20% of Bostonians, 65 or older, live below the poverty line. 61% suffer from four or more...
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.
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.
While the coronavirus outbreak poses health risks for everyone, officials have made clear that the elderly are particularly vulnerable. As restaurants close, grocery store aisles emptied, pantries get depleted, and older adults encouraged to limit travel and social contacts, food...
Due to unexpected staff absences, Ethos CEO Valerie Frias and Nachet Mechiz, the organization’s nutrition director, pitched in to sanitize tables and serve meals to homeless older adults at Cardinal Medeiros Center in the city’s South End...
Meg Barhite of Ethos explains how the nonprofit is helping elders withstand the onslaught of COVID-19, whether by access to meals or other services. Interview for BNN News.
UPDATED: Monday, March 16, 2020, 12:56 p.m. This is an important message regarding our Community Café sites. As a precaution to help prevent the spread of coronavirus (covid-19) among older adults, many of the venues that host our cafes...