Declaration for Independence

A Call to Transform Health and Long Term Services for Seniors and People with Disabilities



What We’re Reading: Feb. 15, 2016

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The Atlantic: A First-Aid Class for Mental Health Most people know how to help someone with a cut or a scrape. But what about a panic attack? — Meagan Morris (Feb. 12) Maclean's: How universities are helping students with ‘invisible’ disabilities Schools are racing to figure out how to use accommodations to handle the wave [...]

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What We’re Reading: Feb. 8, 2016

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The Baltimore Sun: Police training expands for encounters with people who have developmental disabilities The 11 recruits will be the first police class in Howard County to take the four-hour training on intellectual and developmental disabilities after it became a requirement for recruits across Maryland. — Tim Prudente (Jan. 17) The Guardian: Poor housing is [...]

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What We’re Reading: Jan. 11, 2016

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NPR: Anatomy of Addiction—How Heroin and Opioids Hijack the Brain They trigger the release of dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter that causes intense pleasure in parts of the brain that include the limbic system, according to Savage. It links brain areas that control and regulate emotions such as the pleasures of eating, drinking and sex. [...]

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What We’re Reading: Dec. 21, 2015

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Kaiser Health News: Baby Boomers Set Another Trend - More Golden Years in Poorer Health After the last of the baby boomers become fully eligible for Medicare, the federal health program can expect significantly higher costs in 2030 both because of the high number of beneficiaries and because many are expected to be significantly less [...]

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What We’re Reading: Dec. 14, 2015

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National Journal: I'm Not Broken I’m hardly the only per­son with aut­ism who has ended up pur­su­ing a ca­reer in Wash­ing­ton; people with aut­ism are, after all, every­where in the world. Yet des­pite our pres­ence in D.C., the polit­ic­al con­ver­sa­tion sur­round­ing aut­ism is of­ten mad­den­ingly dis­con­nec­ted from our lives. — Eric Garcia (Dec. 4) Disability Scoop: [...]

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What We’re Reading: Nov. 16, 2015

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Administration for Community Living: Remembering Jamie Kendall ACL is mourning the loss of Jamie Kendall, Acting Director of the Independent Living Administration, who died November 12. Jamie was an inspirational leader, brilliant colleague and dear friend, but these words do not begin to really capture who she was, or how many people she touched. In [...]

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What We’re Reading: Oct. 19, 2015

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Government Executive: Disabled employees in federal government reach all-time high More individuals with disabilities work for the federal government than in any time in the 34 years agencies have been tracking the statistic. Between fiscal years 2011 and 2014, federal agencies hired nearly 72,000 full-time permanent employees with disabilities. Between fiscal 2013 and 2014, the [...]

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What We’re Reading: Oct. 12, 2015

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The New York Times: The chains of mental illness in West Africa Every society struggles to care for people with mental illness. In parts of West Africa, where psychiatry is virtually unknown, the chain is often a last resort for desperate families who cannot control a loved one in the grip of psychosis. Religious retreats, [...]

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What We’re Reading: Oct. 5, 2015

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Bloomberg The Job of the Future Is... Home Health Care The BLS has projected that by 2022 there will be 1.9 million home health care workers, making it the fastest growing industry in the land over the coming years, just ahead of the not entirely dissimilar categories of individual and family services and outpatient, laboratory [...]

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What We’re Reading: Sep. 28, 2015

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Health News Florida Isolation Increases Florida's Rural Suicide Rates Florida's rural counties are seeing suicide rates for youth almost double that of the state's large cities. And experts say isolation, poverty, access to firearms and a lack of mental health resources are to blame. — Daylina Miller & Nancy Klingener (Sep. 24) Kaiser Health News [...]

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