{"id":89,"date":"2007-01-03T10:10:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/03\/noonish-report\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T18:28:08","slug":"noonish-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2007\/01\/noonish-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Noonish report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to be late, just wrapped up a long listen of the legislative hearings by the North Carolina Study Commission on Aging. The state is looking at a number of models for improving and streamlining services\u00e2\u20ac\u201da good idea since the population boom in retirees is accelerating. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aging.unc.edu\/infocenter\/data\/quickfacts.html\">quick facts<\/a> from UNC&#8217;s Institute on Aging (click on the link for the full list):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NC&#8217;s older population is projected to more than double from 2000 to 2030. The very old population (85+) is projected to much more than double, increasing 150%. [1]<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina has a significantly higher percentage of black elderly (16%) than the overall U.S. (8%). In contrast, North Carolina has a much lower percentage of Hispanic elderly (0.6%) than the overall U.S. (5%) (2004). [6]<\/p>\n<p>Older women significantly outnumber older men; they represent 61% of the 65+ population and 74% of the 85+ population in NC (2004). [6]<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina women age 75+ are twice as likely to be poor as men the same age (2004). [6]<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina will need more than 21,000 additional nurse aides and other paraprofessionals to meet the long term care needs of its older adults over the next 5 years (2001). [8]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other news this noonish hour:<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/orangepolitics.org\/2007\/01\/your-chief-wish-list\/\">OP takes a look<\/a> at the Chapel Hill Police Chief search<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/161\/story\/528093.html\">Teheri-Azar <\/a>wants trial over ASAP<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/orange\/10-804908.cfm\">H-S<\/a><\/em>: Earth Fare leaving Eastgate<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Ernie Hood&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/communityradio.coop\/\">WCOM<\/a> science show, <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~radioinvivo\/\">Radio In Vivo<\/a>, gets a <a href=\"http:\/\/carolinanewswire.com\/news\/News.cgi?database=1news.db&#038;command=viewone&#038;id=1901&#038;op=t\">write-up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to be late, just wrapped up a long listen of the legislative hearings by the North Carolina Study Commission on Aging. The state is looking at a number of models for improving and streamlining services\u00e2\u20ac\u201da good idea since the population boom in retirees is accelerating. Some quick facts from UNC&#8217;s Institute on Aging (click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}