May 13, 2014 | The Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD), the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities and the National Disability Rights Network have launched a new web site to help advocates get involved in their states and improve the implementation of the new Medicaid Final Rule regarding the settings of Home [...]
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Additional Questions from the National Day of Dialogue
View Video from the National Day of Dialogue > Download the Full Report > Question: Have you identified or prioritized the top services needed to deliver independent living? If so, have you built pro forma financial models to accomplish these goals? Response: No – we have not done so. It seems to us that priorities [...]
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What We’re Reading: July 20, 2015
We’re counting down to July 26 – the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) – with the top anniversary articles and blogs. Plus last week’s White House Conference on Aging; the need for childhood, adolescent access to mental health treatment; rise of young people among nursing home population; and recent reports on [...]
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What We’re Reading: “Creating Livable Communities”
Creating Livable Communities presents six strategies or policy levers, gleaned from the two previous research reports, that can be implemented on the federal and local levels to promote collaboration and coordination and support livable community objectives. Each of these strategies is illustrated by actual promising practices at both the federal and state levels that can [...]
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What We’re Reading: Jan. 19, 2015
Caregiver wage, overtime protections struck down. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said this week that the U.S. Department of Labor overstepped its authority when it moved to mandate pay protections for caregivers. (Disability Scoop, Jan. 16) Congress seeks to limit transfers between Social Security and Disability funds. A sweeping rules package the House approved at [...]
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What We’re Reading: Jan. 12, 2015
On day one, the new Congress launches an attack on Social Security. The rule hampers an otherwise routine reallocation of Social Security payroll tax income from the old-age program to the disability program. Such a reallocation, in either direction, has taken place 11 times since 1968, according to Kathy Ruffing of the Center on Budget and [...]
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What We’re Reading: Jan. 5, 2015
Federal court ruling allows minimum wage exemptions for home care companionship services. On December 22, 2014, a federal district court judge vacated part of a federal Department of Labor (DOL) rule preventing home care provider organizations from seeking an exemption to paying minimum wage and overtime. (Open Minds, Jan. 4) Federal hiring of people with [...]
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What We’re Reading: Dec. 29, 2014
Judge strikes down wage boost for some home workers. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said part of the rules approved last year conflict with federal law that has long exempted third-party providers of in-home care for the elderly and disabled from complying with minimum wage and overtime laws. The decision. (AP, Dec. 22) With caregiver [...]
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What We’re Reading: Nov. 24, 2014
Blind from birth, but able to use sound to ‘see’ faces (NPR, Nov. 21) A brain area that recognizes faces remains functional even in people who have been blind since birth, research says. The finding, presented at the Society for Neuroscience Meeting last week, suggests that facial recognition is so important that evolution has hardwired [...]
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What We’re Reading: Aug. 25, 2014
Medical boards engage in telemedicine reform (POLITICO, Aug. 25) Several state boards of medicine have held or plan to hold special meetings to address their telemedicine policies in order to stay ahead of the growth of the technology in their states. Help Wanted (a Lot): Home-Health Aides (The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 22) Dolores Streater [...]
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