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What We’re Reading: January 27, 2020

January 27, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

Crip Camp kills at Sundance, The Hill Highlights states that are doing disability employment right, and the NYPD hires an officer whose first language is ASL, and the Grammys — as the Nation mourns Kobe Bryant – in this week’s What We’re Reading. .

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, News, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: adaptive sports, aging and technology, asl, AUCD, Colorado, Crip Camp, Deaf/HOH, Disability employment, disabiltiy employment, helath portals, Hockey, IDS, Law Enforcement, Martha's Vinyard, Police with disabilities, sartphons, Sundance Film Festival, Virginia

What We’re Reading: January 6, 2020

January 6, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

Welcome to a new decade! A Deaf/Blind advocate talks about her experiences at Harvard, connections between depression, mental health and poverty and a Presidential candidate releases a disability plan all in the first What We’re Reading of 2020!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Caregivers, Disability Issues, Election Issues, Health Insurance, Hospice, Mental Health, News, What We're Reading Tagged With: deaf/blind, Depression, disability platform, downsizing, Elizabeth Warren •, Elizabeth Warren Disability Platform, Haben Gurma, Harvard, Harvard Law, The Witcher

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: 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

Life is Precious, Practice Wellness

September 26, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

September is National Recovery Month – an opportunity to increase awareness and understanding of mental health conditions and substance use disorders and celebrate the people in recovery. This year the “Join the Voices for Recovery: Together We Are Stronger.” We sat down with Andrea Cook, Program Manager/Advocacy Director at Northern California Mental Health America to learn how we can support our families, friends and communities who are dealing with mental health conditions and living in recovery; as well as become more aware of  our own mental health and wellness.

Filed Under: Blog, Issue Spotlight, Mental Health, News Tagged With: Mental Health, Mental Health America NorCal, National Recovery MOnth

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 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

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

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