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Hamptons hospital adapts fall-prevention classes for aging Spanish-speaking population 

Immigration

The number of foreign-born older people in the US is increasing fast: It’s expected to reach 23% of the total older population by 2060. But the US health care system is not always well prepared to cater to aging immigrants. In an increasingly immigrant community in the Hamptons, in New York, a local hospital is offering fall-prevention classes in Spanish.

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Arts, Culture & Media
Girl sitting with other students look to side

Once, students were punished for speaking Spanish. Here, they are honored.

Education
Brothers John and George Campbell ride donkeys in the forests of Segovia, Colombia.

‘OK, Dad. Why did you kill Spanish in our family?’

Culture
An adult education language class at Ahrens Educational Resource Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Rihab Massif teaches at a preschool in Austin, Texas. Her mother tongue is Arabic.

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Joy Diaz speaks English and Spanish. When she met her daughter’s Arabic-speaking teacher, she realized how many Arabic words she also knows.

A tilde added to the sign for the N subway line in Sunset Park, a heavily Hispanic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.

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Arts, Culture & Media

Anonymous street artists are putting accent marks on a New York City subway line to draw attention to the growing number of Spanish speakers in the city.

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