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What We’re Reading: December 9, 2019

December 10, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

As we countdown to the holidays and the New Year it can be hard to keep up with what’s going on. Find out about aging, disability and caregivers as well as the best Star Wars Commercial you never saw all in this week’s What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Nursing Homes, Social Security, What We're Reading Tagged With: accessible air travel, adaptive hiking, aging in Hollywood, Alice Wong, asl, ASL at the NFL, Black Voters, Deaf, Deaf Star Wars Ad, disability rights, family caregivers, Golden Girls, Google, Hollywood, International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Judy Heumann, Medicaid work requirements, Medicare for All, OK Boomer, Paper Cups, Star Wars, work requirements

What We’re Reading: November 25, 2019

November 25, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Gig Economy Compounds Problems for Disabled Workers, Azza Altiraifi Says | Bloomberg   In this edition of "Bloomberg Equality," Azza Altiraifi, Disability Justice Initiative research associate, discusses the challenges and biases that permeate the gig economy with Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets: The Close." (Source: Bloomberg) International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day | American [...]

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Filed Under: Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Suicide, Support Communities, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Australia, autism, Daily Cardinal, First Peoples, Gig economy, Harry Reid, Older Mexican Americans, Stacey Abrams, Suicide, Suicide Prevention, WAWA

What We’re Reading: November 11, 2019

November 11, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

How to gently help your parents with finances, Florida places children in nursing hoes with little reason and America pauses or recognize the service of our veterans, all in today’s What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Housing, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Social Activity, What We're Reading Tagged With: accessible housing, anitbiotics, Black Rock, inclusive housing, inclusive workplace, managing your money, older americans, paralympic swimmer, Paralympics, retirement savings, trauma, Veterans Day

What We’re Reading: September 23, 2019

September 23, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

This week we recognized National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness day, Hispanic Heritage month and Falls Prevention Awareness Day all in What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Events, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Social Activity, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: Aging myths, code switching, Comcast, Depression, dining while disables, disability and art, Emergency Preparednes, falls, Falls prevention awareness day, Hispanic Heritage month, HIV/AIDS, Lance Robertson, mahjong, National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness day, price caps

What We’re Reading: September 9, 2019

September 9, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

How climate change affects disability, Home care industry woes and the end of an era in disability leadership. Catch up on the latest on aging, LTSS and disability in What we’re Reading!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Medicare & Medicaid, News, What We're Reading Tagged With: Access Living, aging Americans, Climate change, Doctor Shortage, Home care, Marca Bristo, Medicare for All, MS, Muscular Dystrophy, Parent Project muscular Dystrophy, World Duchenne Awareness Day

What We’re Reading: September 3, 2019

September 2, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

What we’re reading is our weekly round up of news articles and events that were important to us. Catch up on the latest on aging, LTSS and disability!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Hospice, Mental Health, News, Nursing Homes, Substance Use, Support Communities, Technology, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: Access Living, audiobook captioning, Black Womens Suffrage, Caregiver Shortage, Caregivers, dementia, Disability and weddings, Drag syndrome, hispanic older adults, Inaccessible apps, LGBTQ, Marca Bristo, Memory loss, National Recovery MOnth, NFB, Public Charge, Queer eye, Vilissa Thompson

What We’re Reading: August 20, 2019

August 20, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

What we’re reading is our weekly round up of news articles and events that were important to us. Catch up on the latest on aging, LTSS and disability!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Diversity, Employment, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Substance Use, What We're Reading Tagged With: 508 compliance, Aging in Place, Benevolent ableism, Bullying, Diet Coke, diversity ad, elder boom, Keri Gray, mass shootings, Medicare expansion, mental illness, Oregon, Paralympians, Pennsylvania IDD

What We’re Reading: August 12, 2019

August 12, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

What we’re reading is our weekly round up of news articles and events that were important to us. Catch up on the latest on aging, LTSS and disability!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Low Income, Mental Health, News, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: Deaf access to sex ed, Deaf Issues, debt and older americans, Debt crisis, Disability employment, disability in Iran, disability-based abortion, Howdy Homemade Ice Cream, pre-natal care, Prescription drugs and older adults, screen readers, Sex Ed

What We’re Reading: August 5, 2019

August 5, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

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Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Diversity, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, News, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: Accessible fitness, accessible housing, ADA, Arizona, Binge drinking among older Americans, Candy Land, Caregivers, Dental coverage, Disability and presidential electin, EEOC, Exercise, lonliness and suicide, Marianne Williamson, Medtronic, Older Americans Housing crisis, Peppa Pig, Polio, politicians with disabilities, Presidential election 2020, Racism and disability, Tickling

What We’re Reading: June 24, 2019

June 24, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Summer is officially here! Keep up with the latest on aging, LTSS and disability from the beach, spa or camp our weekly round up of news articles and events!

Filed Under: Affordable Care Act (ACA), Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Issue Spotlight, Mental Health, News, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: aging, Aging Plan, Community Living, Deb Cotter, Disability Pride, Eve Hill, Gloria Vanderbilt, Incontinence, Juneteenth, LGBTQIA, March of Dimes, NASI, Olmstead decision, Texting, Universal Family Care

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