Valentine’s Day: I [HEART] the ACA and Medicaid
On Valentine’s Day, many disability groups are sending love letters to the ACA and Medicaid as a means of showing support for the legislation.
An aging global population and its economic implications
Nations will have to make many changes or face slower economic growth and increased social costs to deal with aging populations. A phenomenon deeply troubling economists and policymakers is the aging global population. This is a major concern since it has numerous global economic and financial implications impacting economic growth, health care costs, and social support systems.
Businesses seek solutions for aging rural workforce |West Central Tribune, Feb 11, 2017
As the median age of Minnesotans creeps higher, the state’s changing demography signals economic struggles for rural communities. Employers in small towns and rural parts of greater Minnesota face the challenge of replacing a wave of baby boomers approaching retirement as a burgeoning number of younger residents leave rural areas.
The CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Stabilize Marketplace for 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a proposed rule for 2018, which proposes new reforms that are critical to stabilizing the individual and small group health insurance markets to help protect patients. This proposed rule would make changes to special enrollment periods, the annual open enrollment period, guaranteed availability, network adequacy rules, essential community providers, and actuarial value requirements; and announces upcoming changes to the qualified health plan certification timeline.
The Center for Disability Rights Launches the FREE OUR PEOPLE Film Contest
The Center for Disability Rights (CDR), a disability led, not for profit corporation that provides services to people with disabilities to promote independence and self-determination, will be holding its first ever Free Our People Film Contest. The contest is scheduled to begin Wednesday, March 1st with a deadline for submissions on Friday, March 31st. For more information, contact Leah Smith at 806-239-5582 or LSmith@CDRNYS.ORG.
Disability Works: Breaking down barriers in business | BBC News
Across the world up to 1.2 billion people live with some sort of disability, it is estimated. That’s equivalent to the population of China. In the UK, it is thought that some seven million people of working age have a disability, which all adds up to an awful lot of spending power. Latest figures from the UK’s Department of Work and Pensions estimate that this spending power, the so-called “purple pound”, is worth £249bn to the economy. So what should businesses be doing to try to get a share of this money?
The Hunger Gains: Extreme Calorie-Restriction Diet Shows Anti-Aging Results | Scinetific American
A new study shows five days of hunger a month may reduce risk factors for aging and age-related diseases. The idea that organisms can live longer, healthier lives by sharply reducing their calorie intake is not exactly new. Laboratory research has repeatedly demonstrated the anti-aging value of calorie restriction, often called CR, in animals from nematodes to rats—with the implication that the same might be true for humans.In practice though, permanently reducing calorie intake by 25 to 50 percent or more sounds to many like a way to extend life by making it not worth living
Why I’m Frightened About Aging In America | Forbes
Next Avenue invited all our 2016 Influencers in Aging to write essays about the one thing they would like to change about aging. This is one of the essays.
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