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Rush University Medical Center and the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Law and Aging have released an interactive educational curriculum on assessing the capacity of older adults, funded by The Retirement Research Foundation. The course is aimed at physicians but is valuable and useful as well for other health care clinicians, students, and interested professionals. The curriculum features six modules: the importance of evaluating patients’ capacities; key principles and practices; the evaluation process and content; specific capacities and situation; when to conduct an evaluation yourself and when to refer; and working with courts in guardianship proceedings. The curriculum also…
Attended the Fundraiser on Saturday, over $2,000 was collected. For more information on Friends of Meals on Wheels visit the Website.
If an employee management issue costs an organization an estimated $2,441 per employee ($17.1 billion to U.S. employers) does that affect the organization’s risk management behavior? What if this same issue causes employees to lose focus, undergo stress, and have things occur in their personal world that are beyond their and the organization’s control? Of course it does. This is a situation that is becoming more and more common as employees become more involved in the caregiving for parents and spouses as they age. Changing demographics are increasing risks to organizations across the country as employees over the age of…
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House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released his budget for FY 2014 this week. The Ryan FY 2014 budget is very similar to his budget proposals from years past and recommends significant reforms to Medicare and Medicaid. The proposal would balance the budget by 2023, cut $4.6 trillion in a decade, and leaves the sequester in place. The Ryan Budget recommends spending $41 trillion over the next decade, which is approximately $5 trillion less than would be spent under the current Obama Administration policies. Congressman Ryan proposes to “simplify the tax code to make it fairer to American families…
The harshest impact will be on seniors who rely on federal programs to keep fed, stay warm (or cool), perform basic tasks like dressing and bathing, and keep in contact with the outside world. Senior nutrition programs like Meals on Wheels face cuts resulting in 18.6 million fewer congregate and home-delivered meals, according to Amy Gotwals, senior director of public policy and advocacy at the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging. Meanwhile, an estimated 400,000 households will be severed from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which assists low-income seniors and other households with their heating and cooling bills….
As a consequence of congressional gridlock, $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are starting to take effect. We’ve heard the dire warnings about the impact: air travel delays, 70,000 children forced out of Head Start, cutbacks in food inspections, understaffed fire departments, 700,000 fewer jobs created . . . the list goes on. How will programs that seniors rely on be affected? The good news is that big chunks of the budget are exempt from the sequester’s cuts, including Social Security, Medicaid, and veterans’ programs. But while there will be no change in benefits for these programs, the federal workforce…
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