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Families who make the difficult decision to place an elderly relative in a residential care or assisted living home must then ask: Which home?Vermonters…
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Cota’s Hospitality Home looked just as you might picture a mom-and-pop eldercare residence in rural Vermont. Residents of the modest farmhouse outside…
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Marilyn Kelly's health declined quickly during her eight months at an eldercare home. The 78-year-old entered Our House Too in Rutland a spirited woman who could cast a fishing rod. She soon began taking falls, and her visiting daughters often found their mother slumped in a stupor.
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It’s been more than 150 years since it was legal to arrest people in Vermont for unpaid debts.And yet over the last two decades, roughly 200 debtors in…
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Last year, VPR investigated the three Vermont towns that issued the most speeding tickets in 2017: Plymouth, Bridgewater, and tiny Mount Tabor. We've…
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"I want to know what it's really like to be out of prison, but not free. To have to check in with a parole officer, regularly, for years. To start again…
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Even a generic, blank form is considered confidential by Vermont’s Agency of Human Services.When VPR requested a blank “Critical Incident Review Form”…
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As baby boomers age and the workforce shrinks, experts fear there will not be enough people or money to care for all our elders. In many ways, that…
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There aren’t nearly enough inpatient beds in Vermont for children in mental health crisis. Instead, kids who are a danger to themselves and others wait…
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Emergency rooms are intended for short-term care. Say a child comes in with a broken bone. She'll have it set, get a cast and some pain meds, and be sent…