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What We’re Reading: December 30, 2019

December 30, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

For auld lang syne, ableist narratives, the decade that never ended and the countdown to 2020 all in this week’s What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Events, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, News, What We're Reading Tagged With: 2020, 2030, ableism, Disability life, The OUghts

What We’re Reading: December 23, 2019

December 23, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

This week saw disability being discussed at a Presidential Debate, celebrations of Hanukah, Festivus and Christmas as well as the DisCo’s loss of Mama Cax. 2020 is right around the corner – see through the Holiday Haze with this week’s edition of What We’re Reading.

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Disability Issues, Diversity, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Mental Health, News, Nursing Homes, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: 3rd Democratic Presidential debate, aging, aging parents, Detroit, Hollywood, Mama Cax, Martha's Vinyard, nursing homes

What We’re Reading: December 16, 2019

December 16, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Inclusion is front and center in a classic holiday story, new technologies to manage medical data and fight Alzheimer’s disease and Democratic Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang releases his disability plan in this week’s edition of What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Caregivers, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Technology, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: A Christmas Carol, aeism, Alzheimer's Disease, Andrew Yang, Blockchain, Cerebral Palsy, drug prices, EARN, Id/DD, Mental Health, ODEP, retirement, self-Identification, South Carolina, Tiny TIm, Work Requirments

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: December 2, 2019

December 2, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

This week we are spooning out all of your post Thanksgiving Leftovers including Worries about air pollution and older adults, food as medicine, and a LTSS Plan from Presidential hopeful Peter Buttigeg all in What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, News, Nursing Homes, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: aging parents, air pollution, Bay Area, disability emergency preparedness, food pharmacies, Marilyn Saviola, paper-cup bans, Pete Buttigieg

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 18, 2019

November 20, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Julian Castro drops his disability platform,, Older Mexican American adults may be more at risk for frailty, and General Hospital hailed for disability inclusion in What We’re Reading

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Employment, Health Insurance, Hospice, Medicare & Medicaid, News, What We're Reading Tagged With: dementia, Disability employment, disability in hollywood, Fraility, General Hospital, Healthy Aging and online coaches, Julian Castro, older americans, Older Mexican Americans, Presidential candidates and disability platform, Suicide

What We’re Reading: November 4, 2019

November 4, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Power Shut offs in California, a presidential candidate drops his disability platform, and DC nurses a sugar hangover from Halloween and their world series win — all in today’s What We’re reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Disability Issues, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, News, Nursing Homes, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: 311, Apple, Buttigeg, disability entreprenuershiip, emojiis, Mental Health, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, NDEAM, Power Cutoffs in California, Presidential candidates and disability platform, silver technology

What We’re Reading: October 14, 2019

October 21, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Disability advocates sue around dockless scooters, we continue to celebrate NDEAM and why it may be time to have “The Ta;l” with Nana. Come see all of the articles on aging, disability and LTSS, that motivated us this week in What We’re Reading.

Filed Under: Affordable Care Act (ACA), Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Housing, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Support Communities, Uncategorized, What We're Reading Tagged With: age-proofing, Amy Klobuchar, Baby Boooers, dementia, Dockless bicycles, escooters, fall prevention, Hearing aids, Medicaid Advantage, Medicare, Presidential candidates and aging issues, Presidential Candidates and disability, STDs, STIs

What We’re Reading: September 16, 2019

September 16, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

Court challenges to the ADA, what the DisCo thought of the 3rd Presidential debate and remembering 9/11 are all in What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Court Cases, Disability Issues, Health Insurance, Hospice, Housing, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Social Security, What We're Reading Tagged With: 3rd Democratic Presidential debate, 9/11. 9/11 attacks, Aging and dementia, Challenges to the ADA, EVV, Generation Z, institutionalization, mental helath stigman

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