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		<title>Four lessons from Social Security’s Disabled Adult Child Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Pollack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you pay Social Security taxes, you may not realize that you also have bought the largest life insurance and disability policy most Americans ever own.]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1: “Villages” help seniors stay in their homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seniors are staying in their homes with the help of networks of friends and family's called a "village", which helps them manage tasks the can no longer handle on their own.]]></description>
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		<title>Part 4: Building homes to age In</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Ludden - NPR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New homes built with "universal design" allow the elderly and disable to stay in their homes and live independently.]]></description>
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		<title>New long-term care insurance will provide flexible cash benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harris Meyer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benefits could be used to pay for a home aide, transportation, assistive technology, adult day care, respite care – even to pay a family member to provide the care. ]]></description>
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		<title>View: It’s time to coordinate care for the disabled and frail elderly</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KaiserHealthNews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Howard Gleckman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizing care is especially important for the frail elderly, who may have multiple chronic diseases.]]></description>
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		<title>Caring for elderly and disabled is a family affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KaiserHealthNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost one out of three adults in the U.S. currently serves as a caregiver.]]></description>
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		<title>High-school students with disabilities can apply for college prep program at UW</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LocalHealthGuide</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students are encouraged to apply by Jan. 10.]]></description>
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		<title>Health stories in the news</title>
		<link>http://mylocalhealthguide.com/health-stories-in-the-news-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael McCarthy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Health stories in the news</title>
		<link>http://mylocalhealthguide.com/disabled-children-spanking-health-reform-medical-errors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LocalHealthGuide</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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).
&#8220;At least 41,972 students with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Will Care for the Elderly and Disabled?</title>
		<link>http://mylocalhealthguide.com/long-term-care-elderly-geriatrics-aging-seniors-medicare-disable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LocalHealthGuide</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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