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Pursuing Profits in Elder Care Puts Us All at Risk
By Beverley Skeggs Professor Skeggs Professor Beverley Skeggs directs the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity Program at the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science I was upset and angry about my mother’s death. But I became…
Author: Inequality.org
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Taking care of our elderly is a priority
by Paul Mulholland The Irish Geronto-logical Society re-cently held its Annual Scientific Meeting highlighting new developments in research into ageing in Ireland. President of the Society, Prof Des O’Neill hailed the range and quality of the research presented, which included a study on the use…
Author: Irish Medical News
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The elder-care crunch
13 Jul 2008 Original Source By Tanika White, Sun reporter After four years of medical school and three years of internal medicine training, Jessica Colburn could have chosen just about any field of medicine to practice. Gastroenterology would have been lucrative, brain surgery exciting. At…
Author: The Baltimore Sun
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Lobbyists Ramp Up Efforts On Health Care
Listen at the NPR website RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And long before President Obama sent out the invitations for yesterday’s meeting on health care, major players were already lobbying on the issue. Now, those lobby campaigns are about to arrive in America’s homes. NPR’s Peter Overby…
Author: National Public Radio (NPR)
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2,000 children put into State care in 2006
by CARL O’BRIEN ALMOST 2,000 children were admitted into State care in 2006 due to abuse or neglect in their families, according to an unpublished report compiled by the Health Service Executive (HSE). The figures are contained in a national review of child and family…
Author: Irish Times
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Coalition: Health insurance companies go too far; National push begins for affordable care
Original Source By Catherine Candisky Nearly every week after her mother was killed and her father was gravely injured in a car crash, Stephanie Beck Borden battled her parents’ insurance company. He was ready to go home, insurance officials insisted. But he couldn’t walk and…
Author: The Columbus Dispatch
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Health care in spotlight: Coalition starts national campaign to push for U.S. system's reform
Original Source By TAMMIE SMITH TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER As a summer intern with the Virginia Organizing Project, Gabrielle Brown has spent the past few weeks knocking on doors, asking residents about community issues and health care. She has gotten an earful. One single mother of…
Author: Richmond Times-Dispatch
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GW Health Workforce Institute Receives $5.5 Million to Advance Health Workforce Equity Issue
WASHINGTON, DC (March 9, 2016)— Researchers at the George Washington University’s (GW) Health Workforce Institute today announced a $5.5 million award from The Atlantic Philanthropies to promote health workforce equity by identifying, connecting and preparing leaders in the field to advance social mission in health professions education.…
Author: The George Washington University
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Experts Work to Transform Nursing Home Care
What are the best ways to improve nursing home care in the United States? Original Source By Jennifer Larson, contributor What are the best ways to improve nursing home care in the United States? That’s the question asked by a group of academics and nursing…
Author: NurseZone.com
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Massive Grants to Transform Nursing Education in South Africa
New Programme Will Improve Nursing Education, Increase Ranks of University Educated Nurses and Benefit All South Africans Cape Town, 11 December 2008 – Nursing education in South Africa will be boosted by an unprecedented injection of R70-million over four years from The Atlantic Philanthropies, an…
Author: Inyathelo The South African Institute for Advancement