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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

9/11 – Eighteen Years Later

September 11, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

18 years after the events of 9/11 a new generation enters adulthood where those events were history rather than experience. What do we pass on to them as we consider the events of that day in September?

Filed Under: Blog, Events, News, Uncategorized Tagged With: 2001, 9/11, 9/11 attacks, September 11

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

Recognizing World Duchenne Awareness Day and How PPMD is Paving New Policy Pathways

September 7, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

With the growing recognition of World Duchenne Awareness Day on September 7, Congress returning to work after summer recess, our kids heading back to school and the need to reach out to teachers and administrators about Duchenne, September is the perfect month to take action to raise awareness and crucial funds to support our fight to End Duchenne.

Filed Under: Blog, Disability Issues, News Tagged With: Duchenne, Muscular Dystrophy, Parent Project muscular Dystrophy, PPMD, 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 26, 2019

August 26, 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: Disability Issues, Diversity, Election Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Mental Health, News, Substance Use, Technology, What We're Reading

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

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