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The impacts of social isolation on elders separated from family during COVID-19, political reporters analyze the Missouri General Session, the creator of an art exhibit around masks, and the sounds of one weekly parade lifting a neighborhood's spirits.

Segment 1: In 1990, Deanna Dikeman took a photo of her parents waving goodbye to her as she drove away.She continued to take these pictures for decades…

Segment 1: "Tough love, to me, means you love fiercely but not uncritically," said Susan Rice. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice recounted…

Segment 1: A new book on aging proposes a third stage in life.First comes childhood, then adulthood and finally, elderhood, which begins roughly in your…

“It’s so silly. Who’s not getting a day older?”That’s more than a rhetorical question from Joicie Appell, the actress who plays an elderly Kansas woman in…

Segment 1: After recent controversies Missouri's institutions of higher learning working to get back on track.The University of Missouri System gained new…

Sepsis hits nearly two million people in the U.S. a year and kills more than a quarter million. It’s a particular problem in nursing homes, where the…

Lonnie and Ronnie McFadden, of Kansas City's McFadden Brothers, grew up at 19th and Euclid, on Kansas City's east side. They've been a tap-dancing duo for…

Nursing homes in Kansas find themselves in crisis, say the people who run them.Where to fix blame or how to remedy things remain matters of debate.A…

It's a long haul from Kansas City, Kansas, to Kanorado, but driving west on Interstate 70 doesn't have to be boring. Today, we learn about some of the…

Until recently, living in your parents' basement might have been viewed with some derision. Now, more families have been stacking two, three, even four…

Kansas is continuing to do business with a home health care agency that a few weeks ago agreed to settle a federal kickback case for $1.8 million.State…