Results List
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New Routes to Community Health Awards $1.8 Million to Improve Immigrant Health
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
New Routes to Community Health in Madison, Wisconsin, has announced $1.8 million in grants to improve the health of immigrants in the United States. A project of the Robert Wood Johnson and Benton foundations, New Routes awarded eight three-year grants of $225,000 to immigrant-led collaborations…
Resource type: News
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Choosing Long-Term Care: Advice From an Expert
Source: The New York Times (The New Old Age Blog)
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…
Resource type: News
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Choosing Long-Term Care: Advice From an Expert
Source: The New York Times
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…
Resource type: News
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ASP announces 2008 T. Franklin Williams Scholars
Source: Eurekalert
The Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) is pleased to announce the seventh class of T. Franklin Williams Scholars. These scholars are recipients of two- and four-year career development awards funded by a generous grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., supported by the John A.…
Resource type: News
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Millions of older Americans work longer, retire later;
Source: Associated Press
Longer lives, inadequate savings and a slowing economy are among the reasons why more people are working past the average retirement age of 63. by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and…
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Laboring longer a growing trend for Americans
Source: The Associated Press
by Dave Carpenter Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond. While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the…
Resource type: News
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Baby boomers find meaning in 'encore careers' at nonprofit groups
Source: The Dallas Morning News
Original Source By BOB MOOS Move over, Bill Gates. You've got company. The former full-time executive of Microsoft and present co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is just one of an estimated 1.1 million baby boomers who have traded jobs in the corporate…
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Budding entrepreneurs honoured
Source: The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
By Alex Wright Bermuda's budding young business people took centre stage at the 2008 Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative of Bermuda (YEIB) BizCamp Prize Giving ceremony. A total of 15 Bermudian entrepreneurs whose business plans were judged the best of the 2008 BizCamps presented their projects at…
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Action Among Partnerships, Local Health Care Leadership
Source: San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Original Source by Nadra Kareem, San Fernando Valley Business Journal StaffSenior Services Partnership Partners in Care Foundation, a nonprofit healthcare and social services organization in San Fernando, has announced that it will partner with the California Association of Physician Groups to expand the Healthier Living…
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The Third Age: Now's the time to ponder long-term health care
Source: Columbia Tribune
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…
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