Readers sound off on challenges facing seniors, the New Orleans attack and counterfeit products

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : In 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model, a voluntary, nationwide test that aims to support people with dementia and unpaid caregivers.
53% : Folks need to strike back at tax-happy bureaucrats!
52% : Clyde Kerlew Floral Park: To all those who voted for Trump, I need to ask: Will you encourage yourselves, your children and your grandchildren to follow his ways?
40% : It would be impressive if the editors could explain how Patel is unfit and dangerous, other than that he supports Trump.
31% : Because Trump won't deliver anything else.
19% : William Cook Brooklyn: Re "Don rips 'Islamic terrorism, open borders' after N. Orleans horror" (Jan. 3): Trump spewing ignorant nonsense, lying and making things up out of whole cloth is shocking, simply shocking.

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