Disability Community Mourns the Death of Marca Bristo
- Marca Bristo, A Longtime Disability Rights Activists, Dies At 66 | WBEZ News
- Access Living founder Marca Bristo made us all listen, including me | Chicago Sun Times
- Marca Bristo, Influential Advocate for the Disabled, Dies at 66 | New York Times
- Statement Tweet from Access Living
- Longtime disability rights activist Marca Bristo dies at 66 | ABC7 News
Proclamation on World Duchenne Awareness Day | NAB
Today is World Duchenne Awareness Day! We invite you to join the fight to End Duchenne this September during Duchenne Action Month and take simple and powerful actions to raise awareness and fund the fight to End Duchenne.. Lern more in our blog or visit, https://www.parentprojectmd.org/get-…/duchenne-action-month/ to get involved!
America’s aging population is leading to a doctor shortage crisis | CNBC
As America’s population ages and demand outpaces supply, a physician shortage is intensifying.
Projections from the Association of American Medical Colleges say the U.S. will see a shortage of 46,900 to 121,900 physicians by 2032 in primary and specialty care.
Medicare-for-All Is Not Medicare, and Not Really for All. So What Does It Actually Mean?| ProPublca
Some candidates use Medicare-for-all to establish themselves as bold progressives or moderate pragmatists. The Trump administration uses it as a point of attack. But voters don’t know what it actually means, and none of the candidates explain it.
In 2 Essay Collections, Writers With Disabilities Tell Their Own Stories | NPR
More than 1 in 5 people living in the U.S. has a disability, making it the largest minority group in the country. Despite the civil rights law that makes it illegal to discriminate against a person based on disability status — Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990 — only 40 percent of disabled adults in what the Brookings Institute calls “prime working age,” that is 25-54, are employed. That percentage is almost doubled for non-disabled adults of the same age. But even beyond the workforce — which tends to be the prime category according to which we define useful citizenship in the U.S. — the fact is that people with disabilities (or who are disabled — the language is, for some, interchangeable, while others have strong rhetorical and political preferences), experience a whole host of societal stigmas that range from pity to disbelief to mockery to infantilization to fetishization to forced sterilization and more.
Why climate change is a disability rights issue. Emergency plans don’t always account for everyone’s needs. | Yale ClimateConnections
Emergency evacuations can be difficult and dangerous, especially for people living with disabilities. “For say, somebody with a physical disability, you can’t evacuate a building if the power goes out or if there’s a natural disaster because the elevators go down,” Alex Ghenis says. Ghenis is a policy and research specialist with the World Institute on Disability, a nonprofit that works on disability rights issues.
Home Care Industry Turnover Reaches All-Time High of 82% | Home Health Care News
The home care industry’s biggest problem — turnover — is only getting worse. Already cited as the No. 1 challenge plaguing home care agencies across the country, the median caregiver turnover rate skyrocketed to 82% in 2018, according to this year’s Home Care Benchmarking Study by market research and education firm Home Care Pulse.
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