Audrey Suga Nakagawa | Apr 11, 2018 | April - May 2018, Giving Care
Every morning, 85-year-old Thomas puts on his aloha shirt and heads to “work” at an adult day care center located near downtown Honolulu. Going there gives him a sense of purpose to get up every morning. His family needs to remind him each day where he is going since...
Audrey Suga Nakagawa | Jan 27, 2017 | Editorial, February - March 2017
There’s no escaping the fact that people in Hawai‘i pay the price of living in paradise. The cost of living is about 60 percent higher than in most states, while wages are among the lowest when adjusted for Hawai‘i’s high cost of living. Housing is particularly...