I love the mother-son team of Rebecca Danigelis and Sian-Pierre Regis! She is a 79-year-old furloughed hotel housekeeper and he is her journalist son. When Danigelis became suddenly unemployed at 75, her world nearly collapsed until Regis stepped in with a bucket list. What follows is a heartwarming documentary (with biting social commentary on ageism […]
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Several grocery stores offer senior shopping hours, but for Pat Gershick and her husband, leaving home is still concerning. “I went over there, the parking lot was mobbed, there was hardly a space to be had, people were not standing 6 feet and I thought, you know what, I‘ll just come on home,” said Pat […]
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A senior citizen was arrested for allegedly pointing a handgun at another person in a Palm Springs neighborhood this afternoon. Around 3 p.m., officers received a report of a man brandishing a handgun on North Monterey Road near Alejo Road, according to Palm Springs police. Th caller, who was not identified, told police he was […]
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Last week we brought you a story regarding safety concerns seniors were having in the Tierra Del Sol Senior Living Facility. Today, NBC Palm Springs went to see if the security issues were being worked on, but we were met with push-back. Our crew was standing just outside of the main entrance of the Tierra […]
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Residents of the Tierra Del Sol senior facility tell NBC Palm Springs they fear for their safety inside of the complex, and are wondering if the management company is going to do anything to change that. Nellie Siddell, a longtime resident at Tierra Del Sol in Cathedral City, says things have gotten out of hand […]
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A 75-year-old man was in custody Tuesday for allegedly killing a Palm Springs senior citizen in her home, where he was a houseguest, police reported. Officers were sent to the residence in the 300 block of Pico Road about 6 p.m. Monday on a medical aid call and found Claire Carsman dead, according to police, […]
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A Florida mugger picked the wrong senior citizen to attack. The Palm Beach Post reports 68-year-old Steve Shepherd was limping to his car last week, a pulled muscle impairing his stride, when a mugger hit him in the head with a bottle and demanded his cellphone. Bad choice. Shepherd is a five-time world kickboxing champ. […]
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A man accused of fatally stabbing a senior citizen who had kicked him out of his Palm Springs home, then leading police on a high-speed chase in the victim’s car, must stand trial on murder and other charges, a judge ruled Tuesday. Jonathan Flora, 31, is accused in the May 2017 killing of 75-year-old Henry […]
