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What We’re Reading: April 26, 2021

April 26, 2021 by Claudia Paoletto

This week: How do we integrate disabitly into the global health agenda, AND sitting at the intersection of Asian and disability identity PLUS the DisCo goes to the Oscars AND we recognize Earth Day and another holiday from last week in in What We’re Reading!

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What We’re Reading: October 15, 2018

October 15, 2018 by Claudia Paoletto

How California's aging population is its greatest natural resource | LA Times The Oct. 7 article on California’s aging population focuses welcome attention on the needs of this fast-growing demographic. However, there is temptation to concentrate only on the negatives when there is another side to the story. Older Californians are valuable — our only [...]

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What We’re Reading: October 8, 2018

October 8, 2018 by Claudia Paoletto

Disability in Africa: 'I'm no longer ashamed of my disabled daughter' | BBC News When Agnes Mutemi discovered that her first-born daughter Nambia was mentally ill at the age of two, her first reaction was to be ashamed. She remained in denial for several years until she found a school which specialised in caring for [...]

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What We’re Reading: April 10, 2017

April 10, 2017 by Claudia Paoletto

Aging isn’t killing us, lack of sleep is |The New York Post In news that will come as no surprise to anyone over the age of 30, new research has found it gets harder to sleep as we get older. But it’s not young children, partners or weather sabotaging our precious rest, but biology, according [...]

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