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What We’re Reading: August 17, 2020

August 17, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

This week: Retires debate Alzheimer’s vs COVID-19, 10,000 Americans die waiting for SSDI hearings AND how the Biden Disability Plan could close the Equal Pay loophole PLUS Michelle Obama opens up about depression and menopause all in What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), COVID-19/Coronavirus, Disability Issues, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Social Security, What We're Reading Tagged With: ADA, African Americans, Alzheimer's Disease, Biden, COVID-19, disability stereotypes, Endemic violence, Equal Pay, high blood pressure, Long Term Care, menopause, Michelle Obama, Raja Abdullah Almasabi, SSDI, structural racism, Telemedicine

What We’re Reading: August 3, 2020

August 3, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

This week: We continue to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the ADA wit Lex Frieden and Merrill Friedman, Loneliness and its impact on aging seniors, AND how the Internets is reacting to SSDI PLUS the last words of Rep. John Lewis

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), COVID-19/Coronavirus, Disability Issues, Diversity, Employment, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Social Security, What We're Reading Tagged With: 30th Anniversary of teh ADA, ableism, ADA30, aging parents, COVID-19, disability culture, disability rigts, Food Security, immigrants, Jon Lewis, lonliness, National Intern Day, SSDI, Vilissa Tompson

What We’re Reading: February 10, 2020

February 10, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

This past week gave us the end of a Presidential Impeachment, anther Presidential Debate, as well as some surprises at the Oscars. Catch up on the rest of the news on aging and Divisibility in What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Caregivers, Disability Issues, Health Insurance, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Social Security, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: ADA Anniversary, aging, Career Lattices, caregiver apps, corona virus, disability and social media, Jewish Disability Awareness, police violence, SSI/SSDI, Super Bowl, World Cancer Day

What We’re Reading: February 3, 2020

February 3, 2020 by Claudia Paoletto

Kansas City clinches the Super Bowl Win, Punxatawney Phill predicts an early spring as well as the new look for Barbie and advances in adaptive gaming as we also say goodbye to Jim Lehrer in this week’s What We’re Reading!

Filed Under: Caregivers, Disability Issues, Health Insurance, Housing, News, Nursing Homes, Social Security, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: adaptive controller, adaptive gaming, aging, Baby Boomers, Barbie, Child Care, Dolls with Vitiligo, Ji Lehrer, senior living, Social Security Disability Benefit, SSDI, SSI, Vitiligo, XBOX

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: 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: July 8, 2019

July 9, 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, Employment, Low Income, Mental Health, News, Social Activity, Social Security, Substance Use, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: aging in Europe, aging parents, disabled veterans, guns, hidden disabilities, military, nerd wallet, non-apparent disabilities, opiod crisis, Poverty, universal benefits, Vilissa Thompson, women with disabiliteis, women workers

What We’re Reading, May 20, 2019

May 20, 2019 by Claudia Paoletto

While one person with a disability was raised to power, another was erased from history. Learn more about what you may have missed in What we’re reading — our weekly round up of news articles and events that were important to us.

Filed Under: Affordable Care Act (ACA), Alzheimers & Dementia, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Disability Issues, Health Insurance, Legislation & Policy, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Social Activity, Social Security, What We're Reading Tagged With: abortion, Baby Boomers, CMS, dementia, disability and dating, Emergency Preparedness, Game of Thrones, Kentucky, Medicaid Exclusion, Older Americans Month, Planet Fitness, Pride, Running, Tennessee

What We’re Reading, May 6, 2019

May 10, 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), Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Housing, Medicare & Medicaid, News, Social Security, Technology, What We're Reading Tagged With: accessible housing, Alzheimer's Disease, Assisted Living, athletes with disabilites, Black Health, Cisco, Daryl Chill Mitchell, Disability Film Challenge, Easterseals, Intuit, John Singleton, Matthew Wangerman, measles, My Dad Matthew, National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week, retirement, RJ Mitte, Social Security Administration, wheelchair boxing

What We’re Reading, April 29, 2019

April 29, 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, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Issues, Employment, Health Insurance, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Mental Health, News, Nursing Homes, Social Security, Suicide, Technology, Transportation, What We're Reading Tagged With: 2020 Olympic games, accessible skiing, accessible testing, accessible travel, aging, aging in Japan, aging patents, Dialysis, Disability in Japan, discrimination in elementary school, farmers and mental health, Joe Biden, Older Americans Month, Paralympics, SECURE Act, Special (netflix show)

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