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Taking Action From its inception AHI has worked to build a sustainable platform for public dialogue about a quality system in which every American is assured equitable and affordable access to basic health care. To do that we designed and successfully tested two central platform…

Original Source By ANN GOWANS Neither presidential candidate has spoken about long-term care when discussing plans for reforming our health-care system. It seemingly is not a real issue for them. This is a bit easier to understand, perhaps, from the point of view of the…

Middle school students in five Chicago public schools will have greater access to academic, social and health services because of an $18 million grant school officials will announce Wednesday. The four-year grant, provided by The Atlantic Philanthropies, will fund the Integrated Services in Schools program…

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Original Source Trinity College Dublin is an Atlantic grantee. CLAIRE O’CONNELL reports on the rationale behind a new study on ageing in the Republic which has just been launched WHAT IS it really like to grow old in Ireland? A major new study, which launched…

Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Cornell University’s most generous donor, died Oct. 9 in San Francisco. He was 92. Feeney, who quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell through the…

Critical chance to intervene early being missed By Fiach Kelly and Edel Kennedy MORE than one in three parents trying to find out if their child is suffering from autism are being forced to wait over a year for a diagnosis. Official HSE figures obtained…

THE cutting of child benefit payments to those over the age of 18 could exclude children from lower-income families from third-level education and may even prevent others from completing secondary school, children's groups said yesterday. In his Budget, Brian Lenihan announced that benefit payments for…

Original Source Age Sector Platform is an Atlantic grantee. Photo: CAMPAIGN: Bill Carson, Alison McElhinney and Phil Evans at the age sector platform PICTURE: Hugh Russell FIFTY-ONE per cent of all households experiencing fuel poverty in Northern Ireland are pensioner households. In Northern Ireland almost…

Almost 40% of people over 50 in Northern Ireland are planning to cut back on heating their homes because of growing financial strain, according to a new survey. Shock figures revealed that older people are so worried about how they will cope with the spike…