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National Hispanic Council on Aging Urges Healthcare Reform and Geriatrics Training as Older Americans Reach 20% of Population
Source: National Hispanic Council on Aging
The National Hispanic Council on Aging is an Atlantic grantee. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National leaders are meeting in Washington for the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA) conference Oct. 6-7 to urge Congress to support healthcare reform and address the growing need for…
Resource type: News
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Health, education cited as poverty breaker
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
by JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Investing up front in early education programs and health care for children would save hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the long run and help break the poverty cycle affecting millions of kids, a leading child advocate said Tuesday. Marian Wright…
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Change Comes to Washington: Will it Come to Philanthropy, Too?
Philanthropy should step up and seize the unprecedented opportunities created by the election of President Obama, said Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, in this speech at the Annual Meeting of Southern California Grantmakers in Los Angeles. When the terrific Sushma Raman –…
Resource type: Speech
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Beyond the classroom
Source: Catalyst Chicago
Original Source by Phuong Ly Middle-grade students at Reavis Elementary in Kenwood are learning Brazilian martial arts. Perspectives Charter Middle School at Calumet in Auburn Gresham wants to require students to learn to swim. Ames Middle School in Logan Square will have a garden and…
Resource type: News
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AONE receives grant to develop elder care resources
Source: AHA News
Original Source The American Organization of Nurse Executives has received a grant to support the Resourcefully Enhancing Aging in Specialty Nursing initiative. The $17,000 grant from the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at the New York University College of Nursing will allow AONE to expand…
Resource type: News
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Young Invincibles: What’s In a Name?
Source: Young Invincibles
By Tobin Van Ostern and Spencer Dixon The myth still lives on. Health policymakers and pundits continue to call our generation ‘young invincibles,’ the term that derives from the ill-conceived theory that young people choose not to purchase health insurance because they think we don’t need it.…
Resource type: News
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A Nonprofit Push for Change
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Coalition of groups band together in battle to overhaul health care Original Source Health Care for America Now, Families USA, the American Cancer Society and AARP are Atlantic grantees. By Suzanne Perry As members of Congress fan out across the country during their August recess,…
Resource type: News
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Medical school supports strikers
Source: Daily News (South Africa)
by Lyse Comins The University of KwaZulu-Natal's Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine has brought lectures, training and clinical duties in hospitals to a halt in solidarity with striking doctors who have vowed to continue protesting until the Department of Health reinstates their 244 fired…
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Nursing home inspections set to begin
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN INDEPENDENT INSPECTIONS of all public and private nursing homes will officially come into force from today as part of a new initiative to promote better standards of care. A team of about 45 inspectors from the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa)…
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Child protection groups criticise HSE cutbacks
Source: The Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN, Social Affairs CorrespondentCHILD PROTECTION groups warned yesterday that vulnerable young people will be at risk as a result of the Health Service Executive's (HSE) decision to suspend plans for a 24-hour social care service. The HSE wrote to unions in the last…
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