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Original Source The Center to Champion Nursing in America — a joint initiative of AARP and the AARP and Robert Wood Johnson foundations — has announced a series of six reports that examine evidence-based nursing solutions to challenges in healthcare access, quality, and cost. Published in the latest edition…

INDIANAPOLIS - Many drugs commonly prescribed to older adults for a variety of common medical conditions including allergies, hypertension, asthma, and cardiovascular disease appear to negatively affect the aging brain causing immediate but possibly reversible cognitive impairment, including delirium, in older adults according to a…

'Engaging Boomers in Early Childhood' grants help area nonprofits attain more older volunteers to assist children Original Source The Family Nurturing Center in Medford, Oregon is one of three Community Experience Partnership pilot sites. CEP is an Atlantic grantee. By Sanne Specht Becky Walsh sits…

Airing Tuesday, RTE1, 10.10pmBy Paul Whitington In these days of rampant cynicism and endless exposés of rapacious businessmen and dodgy bankers, the story of Chuck Feeney is enough to renew your faith in human nature. An Irish-American born in New Jersey during the Great Depression,…

Watch Online  Atlantic grantee Ben Cashdan of Broad Daylight Films, has produced two excellent shows: one on the South African elections (taking place on Wednesday, April 22) and the other on the ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe, now available for viewing online.  About THE BIG DEBATE…

A supplementary budget for the Republic of Ireland contains tough but necessary measures to set the country on the road to recovery after a difficult recession, said Brian Cowen, Taoiseach for the Republic of Ireland, in this speech. Original Source Ceann Comhairle Yesterday, the Minister…

by NOEL E. OMAN Dismantling the cradle-to prison pipeline that will leave one in three black males born since 2001 at a lifetime risk of going to prison is the ambitious goal of a meeting to be held next month in Little Rock. The Arkansas…

Since October, the situation has worsened everywhere – something you don’t need me to tell you, since the news each day brings fresh tales of economic distress in virtually every country, and among our families and friends. Here in Ireland, where I am spending most…

Original Source A new survey commissioned by the non-profit National Council on Aging (NCOA), with support from The Atlantic Philanthropies and the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF), reveals a bleak and broken health care system for millions of Americans suffering from a variety of chronic conditions. The results…

Original Source by Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer UCSF Medical Center has received a $125 million donation, among the largest in its history, to help build a planned $1.68 billion hospital to provide services to women, children and cancer patients near its Mission Bay biomedical complex,…