Organizing care is especially important for the frail elderly, who may have multiple chronic diseases.
Almost one out of three adults in the U.S. currently serves as a caregiver.
Students are encouraged to apply by Jan. 10.
Judge orders Washington to restore cut services for 950 elderly and disabled adults. Health reform must control costs, says Seattle Times. Swine flu hits WSU.
Teachers more likely to spank disabled children
More than 200,000 U.S. schoolchildren are spanked, paddled or subjected to some other form of corporal punishment each year with disabled children receiving a disproportionate share of such punishments, according to a report prepared by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
“At least 41,972 students with [...]
Howard Gleckman, Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute
July 20, 2009
Advocates of including long-term care services in health reform usually focus on two issues: How many Medicaid dollars should be spent on home care and whether to create a national long-term care insurance program, such as Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., has proposed in his CLASS [...]
How do you find long-term care for a family member? And how do you pay for it?
In this column, Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, reviews your options.
A nursing home isn’t the only answer, Dr. Clancy writes: often there are other services, such as adult day care, meals [...]
Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics has posted a webcast of its forum on the ethics of growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities that was held last Friday, Jan. 23rd.
This issue came to the public’s attention in 2006, when doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of [...]
The “Ashley” case will be discussed in an open forum sponsored by Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics on Friday, Jan. 23.
In 2006, doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of a six-year old girl with profound disabilities whose parents asked doctors to prescribe [...]
The US Veterans Affairs Administration said today it is expanding a pilot program designed to streamline the disability evaluation process over the next several months to 17 additional military installations, including the Naval Medical Center in Bremerton.
The goal of the pilot is to test “a new process that eliminates duplicative, time-consuming and often confusing elements [...]
Small changes in one chromosome have been linked to a wide range of mental disorders including mental retardation, autism and other birth defects, University of Washington researchers report published Sept. 10 by the New England Journal of Medicine. The discovery could lead to new ways for doctors to diagnose mental retardation, autism and other disorders.
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