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[caption id="attachment_57521" align="alignright" width="183"] Maryann Jacob Macias, Atlantic's Associate Programme Executive in the United States.[/caption] All older adults have a right to quality care. Atlantic has a long history of supporting policies and standards to better address the needs of the growing population of older…

The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) -- a new coalition of 25 leading organizations representing older adults and the eldercare workforce, including family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and direct-care workers -- is holding its founding meeting this week in Washington, D.C. This wide array of national organizations…

SECTION: CAPITOL HILL HEARING TESTIMONY LENGTH: 1726 words Statement of Dr. Diana White Senior Research Associate, Institute on Aging Portland State University Committee on Senate Special Aging July 23, 2008 Good morning Senator Casey, Ranking Member Smith, and members of the Committee; I very much…

By Ronald Piana Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Helen Keller, Optimism, 1903 [caption id="attachment_44580" align="alignleft" width="292"] Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP is director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care.[/caption] Shortly past 8:00 AM…

There's no reason why, in just one year, popularity of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act should have risen dramatically. Nor is it true, much as some people would like to spin it that way, that the single largest expansion of the social safety…

by Jane Gross For many of us, elderly parents and adult children alike, nothing is more complicated or consequential than understanding the differences between the many available permutations of long-term care, choosing which is most appropriate for our families and figuring out how to pay…

Original Source By Jane Gross For many of us, elderly parents and adult children alike, nothing is more complicated or consequential than understanding the differences between the many available permutations of long-term care, choosing which is most appropriate for our families and figuring out how…

A new wave of people take joy in switching to public-service work. Original Source By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer After 50 years practicing dentistry in Santa Monica, Cal Kurtzman hung up his drill and embarked on a well-deserved second chapter…

Bronx, NY - PHI, a nonprofit working to strengthen eldercare and disability services in the United States, announces that it has opened a national policy/advocacy office in Washington, DC. The opening of the DC-based office caps a year in which the Bronx-based PHI has significantly…

[caption id="attachment_57503" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Research and Education Facilities on the Isle of Youth in Cuba. Photo: Magnum Foundation[/caption] For over a decade, Atlantic has invested in Cuba’s approach to health care: universal, accessible, patient-centered and anchored in primary-care prevention. Despite scarcities and the effects of…