Apr 5, 2022 | News
From NPR — By DOHA MADANI — Jean White’s mother has dementia and moved into a memory care facility near Tampa, Fla., just as coronavirus lockdowns began in the spring of 2020. For months, the family wasn’t allowed to go inside to visit. ...
Mar 29, 2022 | News
From NBC News — By DOHA MADANI — Amanda Bynes’ conservatorship was terminated March 22 without public contention or fanfare. But disability advocates say her case is not the norm, and warn against using Bynes as evidence that conservatorships don’t...
Mar 22, 2022 | News
From STAT — By RACHEL COHRS — WASHINGTON — Whether seniors get an unprecedented mid-year discount on Medicare premiums will hinge on a forthcoming decision about how the program will cover a pricey, controversial new Alzheimer’s drug that is expected by mid-April....
Mar 15, 2022 | News
From Kaiser Health News — By LAUREN WEBER — Divya Goel, a 35-year-old deaf-blind woman in Orlando, Florida, has had two telemedicine doctors’ appointments during the pandemic. Each time, she was denied an interpreter. Her doctors told her she would have to get...
Mar 8, 2022 | News
From HRMagazine.com — Avoid assumptions about what team members can do. By LISA RABASCA ROEPE Employees with disabilities often believe they don’t have the same opportunities for advancement within their companies as employees without disabilities do. Overall,...
Mar 1, 2022 | News
From MedicalXpress.com — BY Mallory Locklear, Yale University — In the United States, 5 percent to 10 percent of adults 65 and older are victims of elder abuse and mistreatment, public health experts say. Yet only one in 24 cases is ever identified. One of the...
Feb 22, 2022 | News
From EverydayHealth.com — Results from a small clinical trial suggest that Cialis, an erectile dysfunction drug in the same family of medicines as Viagra, might help prevent vascular dementia by increasing blood flow in the brain. By Lisa Rapaport | Everyday...
Feb 15, 2022 | News
From NPR.org — By RACHANA PRADHAN | Kaiser Health News — The Biden administration and state officials are bracing for a great unwinding: millions of people losing their Medicaid benefits when the pandemic health emergency ends. Some might sign up for different...
Feb 8, 2022 | News
From NextAvenue.org — By Kevyn Burger Who are the essential workers paid to care for America’s aged in their homes and in residential and nursing care facilities? The past year-and-a-half has put an unprecedented spotlight on the care received by America’s aging...
Feb 1, 2022 | News
From NPR.org — By BRET STETKA — It all started with genetic data. A gene here, a gene there. Eventually the story became clearer: If scientists are to one day find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, they should look to the immune system. Over the past couple...
