Sonoma County is staring down a painful reality for its older residents: isolation is spiking just as a major lifeline is about to disappear. A $3 million, three-year state grant that has helped keep the county’s PEARLS outreach program afloat is set to expire at the end of this month, and local leaders say the timing could hardly be worse. Recent surveys and public-health data show many older adults go weeks without contact, and suicide rates a…
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