Colleen Morrissey is a Resource Specialist in the Aging Information Center at SCES. SCES Senior Protective Services Worker Norah Al-Wetaid and Connect Social Worker Lisa Waxman also contributed to this report.

By Colleen Morrissey

If you’re coming home for the holidays and visiting parents or older family members, you might notice changes in their behavior or living conditions. You might observe a decline in housekeeping, for example, or significant weight loss, or maybe a failure to take medications as prescribed.

These could be signs of self-neglect – the failure or refusal of an independent older adult to provide one or more of the necessities essential to their own physical wellbeing. So what to do?

Junior Tyler Kulcsar flicked in a corner kick by classmate Kevin Halliday in the second overtime giving the Tufts University Men’s Soccer team a 1-0 win over Calvin College in the 2016 NCAA Division III Championship Game at Roanoke College’s Kerr Stadium  last weekend.

Review by Kate Douglas

From the band’s own commercial films to the countless documentaries and exposés that already exist, it’s hard to imagine that there isn’t an angle of The Beatles that hasn’t been shown to audiences yet, but Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years somehow manages to show the world’s most popular band through fresh eyes.

Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone, Ward 2 Alderman Maryann Heuston, the Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development (OSPCD, and the Somerville Arts Council invite all interested community members to a meeting to discuss ArtFarm, a urban ag and cultural site development, on the former waste transfer site at 10 Popular St. in the Brickbottom neighborhood.

The City of Somerville announced today that it is forming a community advisory committee to assist in the review and recommendation of capital improvement projects for upcoming fiscal years. The committee, which will comprise five community members, will work with city staff to review and provide feedback and recommendations, on behalf of the entire community, on project prioritization.

Jason and Nancy

This Saturday, December 10 at 11 a.m. tune into myTV38 (WSBK-TV)  to see the taped segment of the  Phantom Gourmet’s visit to Somerville’s Victor’s Deli.

Part 2:  How Donald’s identity politics trumped Hillary’s
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By William C. Shelton

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A narrative gaining credence is that Donald Trump’s victory represents the triumph of his economic populism over Hillary Clinton’s identity politics. A more accurate reading, I think, is that Donald Trump could not have succeeded without alloying economic populism with 48 years of Republican identity politics.