Senior Citizens

Missouri’s only senior center devoted to immigrants and refugees resumed its popular senior groups last month.

Glenda Seim, 81, fell in love with a man she met online. He was actually a scam artist. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Berry and journalist Ryan Krull discuss the twists and turns of her case.

For residents of Arrow Senior Living communities, writing a mystery novel together proved to be the perfect pandemic project.

An electric car-sharing service will provide nonemergency rides to seniors in St. Louis while offsetting fossil fuel emissions.

Tenants are moving into the new apartment complex, called Lofts on the Square.

New guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are permitting indoor visits in nursing homes. Missouri health officials are following federal guidelines in new recommendations for nursing homes and long-term care facilities.

Though Missouri has been vaccinating seniors for months, nearly half haven't received COVID-19 shots.

Local health departments and hospitals are relying heavily on online forms to pre-register people for the COVID-19 vaccine, but that leaves out some elderly who need to sign up by phone.

Nursing homes across the U.S. have long struggled with staff shortages, but families and workers in St. Louis say the crisis has worsened in recent months, as the pandemic has pushed some facilities to a breaking point.

Even the quickest scan of statistics related to the coronavirus pandemic makes it painfully obvious the disease has hit some communities and segments of…