Joe
@angelelli.bsky.social
Gerontologist & health services researcher PhD, dad, husband, former care partner for mom with dementia ❤️ age-friendly life, tree plantings and Pittsburgh History 🥧
What’s missing?
Colleges and Universities. They have land, empty dorms to be converted.
Colleges and Universities. They have land, empty dorms to be converted.
August 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What’s missing?
Colleges and Universities. They have land, empty dorms to be converted.
Colleges and Universities. They have land, empty dorms to be converted.
Virtually all of State Sen. Devlin Robinson’s (R) 37th district will see cuts to ACCESS (paratransit). How many older adults will it impact in the municipalities of his district?
How many veterans receiving HCBS will be harmed when their caregivers can no longer get to them due to bus route cuts?
How many veterans receiving HCBS will be harmed when their caregivers can no longer get to them due to bus route cuts?
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Virtually all of State Sen. Devlin Robinson’s (R) 37th district will see cuts to ACCESS (paratransit). How many older adults will it impact in the municipalities of his district?
How many veterans receiving HCBS will be harmed when their caregivers can no longer get to them due to bus route cuts?
How many veterans receiving HCBS will be harmed when their caregivers can no longer get to them due to bus route cuts?
18 Licensed Home Care Agencies with Butler County business address
6 Licensed Home Health with Butler County business address
4 Licensed Hospice Agencies with Butler County business address
apps.health.pa.gov/DHHLicense/D...
6 Licensed Home Health with Butler County business address
4 Licensed Hospice Agencies with Butler County business address
apps.health.pa.gov/DHHLicense/D...
January 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
18 Licensed Home Care Agencies with Butler County business address
6 Licensed Home Health with Butler County business address
4 Licensed Hospice Agencies with Butler County business address
apps.health.pa.gov/DHHLicense/D...
6 Licensed Home Health with Butler County business address
4 Licensed Hospice Agencies with Butler County business address
apps.health.pa.gov/DHHLicense/D...
January 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
was where new building with Shake Shack is now
a memory from that era:
a memory from that era:
January 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
was where new building with Shake Shack is now
a memory from that era:
a memory from that era:
$2.8 billion in NIH funding across Pennsylvania, nearly 5,000 projects.
Almost $1 billion NIH funding in Pittsburgh’s 12th congressional district
$122 million in Penn State’s 15th congressional district
Almost $1 billion NIH funding in Pittsburgh’s 12th congressional district
$122 million in Penn State’s 15th congressional district
January 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
$2.8 billion in NIH funding across Pennsylvania, nearly 5,000 projects.
Almost $1 billion NIH funding in Pittsburgh’s 12th congressional district
$122 million in Penn State’s 15th congressional district
Almost $1 billion NIH funding in Pittsburgh’s 12th congressional district
$122 million in Penn State’s 15th congressional district
increases in Medicare and Medicaid spending in the 8 county Pittsburgh MSA from 1970-2021.
January 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
increases in Medicare and Medicaid spending in the 8 county Pittsburgh MSA from 1970-2021.
$215 billion in projected spending on 15,000 institutional skilled nursing facilities in 2025:
Medicaid: $59B
Medicare: $47B
Out of pocket: $55B
Private LTC insurance: $22B
Other 3rd party payers: $22B
Other health insurance programs: $10B
Medicaid: $59B
Medicare: $47B
Out of pocket: $55B
Private LTC insurance: $22B
Other 3rd party payers: $22B
Other health insurance programs: $10B
January 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
$215 billion in projected spending on 15,000 institutional skilled nursing facilities in 2025:
Medicaid: $59B
Medicare: $47B
Out of pocket: $55B
Private LTC insurance: $22B
Other 3rd party payers: $22B
Other health insurance programs: $10B
Medicaid: $59B
Medicare: $47B
Out of pocket: $55B
Private LTC insurance: $22B
Other 3rd party payers: $22B
Other health insurance programs: $10B
The US spends more on every category of health care except long-term care.
What if spending more (differently) on long-term care lowered costs elsewhere in the US system?
What if spending more (differently) on long-term care lowered costs elsewhere in the US system?
January 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The US spends more on every category of health care except long-term care.
What if spending more (differently) on long-term care lowered costs elsewhere in the US system?
What if spending more (differently) on long-term care lowered costs elsewhere in the US system?
My mom Lynn passed away peacefully on Friday in our home after 8 years of living with dementia. Her beautiful smile and amazing artwork were gifts to us all. ❤️
January 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
My mom Lynn passed away peacefully on Friday in our home after 8 years of living with dementia. Her beautiful smile and amazing artwork were gifts to us all. ❤️
Thirty years ago, I lived as a grad student in “Beverly Hills Adjacent” when they outlawed gas leaf blowers and I thought the future had arrived. I’ve spent the last decade making soil from piles of raked leaves & green clippings. So many benefits of trees.
December 31, 2024 at 2:22 AM
Thirty years ago, I lived as a grad student in “Beverly Hills Adjacent” when they outlawed gas leaf blowers and I thought the future had arrived. I’ve spent the last decade making soil from piles of raked leaves & green clippings. So many benefits of trees.
That’s him two to the right of my great-grandfather at a Westinghouse Air Brake Veteran Employee Assoc. Picnic c1925.
December 31, 2024 at 1:21 AM
That’s him two to the right of my great-grandfather at a Westinghouse Air Brake Veteran Employee Assoc. Picnic c1925.
Visited the Westinghouse memorial today in Schenley Park. Early employee Thomas Campbell was a model for it.
December 31, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Visited the Westinghouse memorial today in Schenley Park. Early employee Thomas Campbell was a model for it.
Trees are social determinants of health
December 31, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Trees are social determinants of health
The Heat Island Effect
December 31, 2024 at 12:30 AM
The Heat Island Effect
Pittsburgh Canopy Alliance:
December 30, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Pittsburgh Canopy Alliance:
Scenes of Washington and Gist crossing the Allegheny River 271 years ago today.
December 30, 2024 at 1:11 AM
Scenes of Washington and Gist crossing the Allegheny River 271 years ago today.
Older Adult Migration in the United States, 2010-2020.
December 29, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Older Adult Migration in the United States, 2010-2020.
Pickleball invented in 1938 at the Highland Park pool?
December 24, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Pickleball invented in 1938 at the Highland Park pool?
Older adult migration in the United States, 2010-2020.
December 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Older adult migration in the United States, 2010-2020.
Was a City-County merger ever seriously discussed in the 1950s?
December 17, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Was a City-County merger ever seriously discussed in the 1950s?
People 50 years ago who died of heart attacks did so at 10 times the rate of today (likely much higher, as current rate expressed as per 100k over age 35 and guessing old stats were age 18+?
December 17, 2024 at 3:00 AM
People 50 years ago who died of heart attacks did so at 10 times the rate of today (likely much higher, as current rate expressed as per 100k over age 35 and guessing old stats were age 18+?
The cancer mortality rate has come down in the last decade, but in 2012 it was about the same as in 1957.
December 17, 2024 at 2:50 AM
The cancer mortality rate has come down in the last decade, but in 2012 it was about the same as in 1957.
Clip art was invented in
Pittsburgh in 1967?
Also, mortality rates in Allegheny County by cause, 1957 & 1966.
Pittsburgh in 1967?
Also, mortality rates in Allegheny County by cause, 1957 & 1966.
December 17, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Clip art was invented in
Pittsburgh in 1967?
Also, mortality rates in Allegheny County by cause, 1957 & 1966.
Pittsburgh in 1967?
Also, mortality rates in Allegheny County by cause, 1957 & 1966.
Liberty Tubes Bluesky
December 17, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Liberty Tubes Bluesky