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Caregiver advocate shares 3 policies that could help family caregivers

(Aging Untold) — More than 60 million Americans are family caregivers, balancing work, kids and care for an aging parent or loved one. Jason Resendez, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, recently testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging. He joined gerontologist “Sam” Cradduck to talk through the solutions he presented. Resendez said the National Alliance for Caregiving is championing changes “to address so many of the pain points that family caregivers face every day.” He said one priority is reauthorization and funding of the Older Americans Act. Resendez said the law provides dollars for state Area Agencies on Aging to deliver services for older adults, such as Meals on Wheels and caregiver support. “One of the only federal line items for caregiving comes through the Older Americans Act, and it’s called the National Family Caregiver Support…

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The model wrote six sentences about a grandmother. Two were allowed on the altar.

The brief this week listed a "digital ofrenda builder" as one of its ideas. I had been circling the same thought all week, so I took it as permission. So I built ofrenda. It writes the remembrance offline with a local open-weight model, and it is not allowed to put a sentence on the page that the memories do not support. One command, one self-contained HTML file, no API key, no account, no network. The six memories in that example file are invented, which is why I can show them here. The tool is for the ones that aren't. Ask llama3.2:1b for a sentence about a grandmother's marigolds and you may get this: She kept marigolds in terracotta pots along the kitchen window. [1] She grew up in Oaxaca and kept twelve pots on the sill. [1] The second one is a false memory about someone's grandmother, formatted identically to the first, on a page you were about to send to your family.…

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My Son Wants to Opt Out of Family Thanksgiving. He’s 12!

I want him with us. It’s tough, because even if hanging out with friends more often in person would be a good outcome for James, he’s the exact wrong age for you to convince him to do anything he doesn’t want to do. It sounds like you’ve already nudged him on this a number of times. Having seen my own teenagers’ eyes glaze over when I say something I’ve said before, I am guessing that if you continue to raise this, pushing your son to go see people or invite them over, you might risk turning it into a bigger point of contention—and thus, something he really digs his heels in about—than you might want. Again, I do understand why this matters to you. It’s great to make sure he knows that you support his friendships, and that his friends are always welcome at your place. You’ve done what you can do. At 15, James is way past the age when you can schedule hangouts for him or play a big part…

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Nursery to close on four days notice as insolvency looms

In an email sent to parents on Monday night, North Edinburgh Childcare confirmed that it will enter insolvency proceedings, citing lower demand for childcare and dwindling external support. The nursery, breakfast clubs and out-of-school clubs will all be shuttered after Friday, 30 October. The closure will affect families whose children attend the nursery and those relying on North Edinburgh Childcare’s out of school care provision in Davidson’s Mains, Ferryhill, Fort, Forthview, Pirniehall/St David’s and Juniper Green Primary School. The Granton childcare service, which has capacity for 66 children, has received “tapered” grant funding, which slowly reduces council support to encourage charities to become more financially independent. Using this model funding has dwindled from just under £400,000 in 2024, when the tapered funding scheme was launched, to around £145,000 in the latest…

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