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The Third Age: Now's the time to ponder long-term health care
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…
Author: Columbia Tribune
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Chasing down retirement
With most Baby Boomers short on savings, longer worklife urged Original Source by Gail Marks Jarvis It seemed like a good idea. Baby Boomers who never got around to saving as much as they hoped promised to keep working past retirement age. The joke in…
Author: Chicago Tribune
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Earlier aid for HIV patients could save unborn babies
Original Source by Khopotso Bodibe The Department of Health may in future allow people living with HIV to get antiretroviral drugs earlier. At present, people relying on public sector health can only get the medication when their CD4 count, which measures the level of immunity…
Author: Pretoria News (South Africa)
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Educators examine American Indian dropout rates
Original Source By Lisa Schencker American Indian and other minority students sometimes drop out of school partly because they don’t feel connected enough to their cultures from an early age, an expert on identifying dropout behaviors told educators Wednesday. “If you don’t have a strong…
Author: The Salt Lake Tribune
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'Philanthropic Divide' Between States Widens, Report Finds
Original Source The gap between the ten states with the most foundation assets and the ten states with the least continues to widen, a new report from the Helena-based Big Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits finds. According to the report, The Philanthropic Divide…
Author: Philanthropy News Digest
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Gardai criticise HSE services after boy forced to stay in station
Original Source By Ralph Riegel, Tom Brady and Louise Hogan IRELAND faces an imminent tragedy involving vulnerable children because of the chronic shortage of ‘out-of-hours’ social worker resources. The warning came as the Health Service Executive (HSE) was heavily criticised by a powerful garda association…
Author: Irish Independent
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VHI warns of serious consequences for older people
Original Source by MARTIN WALL, Industry Correspondent INDUSTRY REACTION:THE VHI said the Supreme Court decision to strike down the risk equalisation scheme could have serious consequences for older and chronically ill people. The VHI’s chief executive Jimmy Tolan said the company, which stood to receive…
Author: The Irish Times
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Barnardos calls for more funds for vulnerable children
Original Source KITTY HOLLAND CONTINUED INVESTMENT in services for vulnerable children is essential despite the economic downturn, one of the State’s leading economists has said. Prof John Fitzgerald of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) said early intervention in vulnerable children’s lives was vital…
Author: The Irish Times
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Countries Make Push To Increase Eye Donors
Original Source By BINA VENKATARAMAN Eye donation recently got a new public face in Syria, where the Grand Mufti, the highest official of religious law, pledged to donate his corneas upon death to help one of the thousands of people waiting for transplants there. In…
Author: The New York Times
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Denying Antiretrovirals To Migrants Hurts Us All
Original Source Interview with Joanna Vearey, Forced Migration Project, Univ. of Witswatersrand JOHANNESBURG, Jul 15 (IPS) – South Africa has become a destination for people from across the continent and beyond. But in spite of migrants having a legal right to free antiretroviral treatment (ART)…
Author: Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
