By Ted Regencia - skokie.patch.com
When Cecilia Buenaflor came to Chicago after she left the Philippines in 1992, she was on her own. The newcomer, who had worked at a New York hospital, did not know anyone. As a single parent, she was struggling to balance motherhood and the demand to earn a living, and being [...]

Uses dance to combat perception that older people are no longer productive
By Vanessa Lu
It is a typical summer’s day, and the main room in the Birkdale community centre on Ellesmere Rd. is just starting to warm up.

Written by Rep. Teodoro L. Locsin Jr.
(Keynote speech at the Midyear Convention of the Association of Nursing Service Administrators of the Phils., Inc., August 20, 2009, Fiesta Pavilion, Manila Hotel, with the theme “Nursing Administrators: Leading Beyond Limits”)

STANDING here—rather, trying to stand here because I just checked out of The Medical City for a bad [...]

By Marconi Calindas
A Filipino-American owned and operated skilled nursing facility in the US bagged a major feat this year, gaining a five-star rating from the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The story is lifted from the book “Migrants’ Stories, Migrants’ Voices 2 published by the Philippine Migrants Rights Watch (PMRW) with the support from Cordaid, an international development organization based in the Netherlands. The book contains a collection of 13 stories about the many faces of migration and details how migrants and their families cope [...]