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The confusion created by the mess over whether over-70s will retain their right to a medical card has created huge uncertainty for the health service and the elderly, reports Aileen O'Meara. As the opposition loudly hammered government ministers in the Dáil last Thursday for abolishing…

Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.  This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…

by ERIK ECKHOLM OMAHA - The abandonments began on Sept. 1, when a mother left her 14-year-old son in a police station here. By Sept. 23, two more boys and one girl, ages 11 to 14, had been abandoned in hospitals in Omaha and Lincoln.…

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…

Original Source by BOB MOOS After a decade or more of corporate downsizings, baby boomers are looking upon cradle-to-grave job security with the same nostalgia as Hula Hoops and 45 rpm records. When boomers entered the workforce, many thought they could spend their careers with…

"I won't be long." Those were the last words Michael Gallagher heard his son Aiden say as he left to buy jeans in Omagh on August 15, 1998. The 58-year-old has been very much the public voice and face of the bomb victims over the…

The non-inheritance movement is going global. Original Source Following on the footsteps of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the richest man in Australia has now promised to give away his fortune to charity. Andrew Twiggy Forrest, the iron-ore magnate behind Fortescue Metals, this week said…

Original Source Brothers Ismael, Luis and Edwin Valeriano are U.S. citizens, but their lives have been upended by the arrest of their father as part of an escalating crackdown on illegal immigrants. In March, the boys' 38-year-old father, Ismael Valeriano, a single parent from Mexico…

Original Source 5 Questions for... Gary Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch Founded in 1983 with the goal of lifting the veil of secrecy then shrouding the White House Office of Management and Budget, OMB Watch is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that…