Posts filed under: long-term care

June 7
Chicago Tribune
An anniversary for Access Living
On the credenza in Marca Bristo's sunny downtown Access Living office are a Barbie doll in a wheelchair, a photograph of one of Bristo's two grown children and awards for her equal rights work on behalf of people with disabilities.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), disability awareness, long-term care, profile, public policy, sexuality

June 6
Houston Chronicle
Kids choked, stripped, beaten at facilities
Workers at a center for distressed children provoked seven developmentally disabled girls into a fight of biting and bruising as staffers laughed, cheered and promised the winners a precious prize: after-school snacks.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy, restraints

June 6
The Boston Globe
Lynn man takes awareness on road
For most people, the prospects of undertaking a cross-country trip is daunting. Not for Matt Eddy of Lynn, who set out yesterday morning on his second coast-to-coast trek to raise money and awareness for the disease he lives with, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and to set a Guinness World Record for fastest cross-country trip by wheelchair.
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Filed Under: Olmsted decision, disability awareness, housing, long-term care, physical disability

May 29
Houston Chronicle
State says it can staff mental facilities
State officials expressed confidence Thursday they will be able to address “extremely serious staffing concerns” and a 60 percent turnover rate among workers who provide direct care to Texans with mental disabilities in the Lubbock State Supported Living Center.
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Filed Under: developmental disability, healthcare, housing, intellectual disability, long-term care, psychiatric disability, public policy

May 26
San Antonio Express-News
Poet with disability finds voice through prose
When the words came, they revealed the voice of a poet.
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Filed Under: arts, long-term care, physical disability

May 21
MarylandReporter.com
Disability care workers getting long-awaited raises
Daniel Zaragoza wants to help people in need so badly that he's worked as a pizza delivery man on the side to make ends meet.
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Filed Under: healthcare, long-term care, public policy

May 20
The Wall Street Journal
Disabled Face Hard Choices as States Slash Medicaid
Tandem forces of shrinking state budgets and rising health-care costs have collided and struck a small brick ranch house in this rural town, home to Barbara Hickey.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Olmsted decision, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy

May 11
InformationWeek
HHS Establishes Disability Research Center
The Department of Health and Human Services Office on Disability announced on Monday an award of more than $6 million to establish a research center that will build electronic data models to conduct comparative effectiveness research on disability services and quality of care.
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Filed Under: healthcare, long-term care, public policy, technology

May 10
KPCC-FM (Pasadena, Calif.)
Disability rights advocates split over closure of Lanterman center
The Lanterman Development Center in Pomona cares for people who are developmentally disabled. It’s named for Frank Lanterman — the Republican lawmaker who was the driving force behind changes in California’s care of the mentally disabled in the 1960s. He fought to improve care at state-run facilities. Now the one that bears his name is due to close. At a recent Sacramento hearing, advocates for the disabled were split over the closure.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Olmsted decision, healthcare, housing, long-term care, public policy

March 30
Twin Cities Daily Planet (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Minnesota: Saying "sorry" for treatment of persons with disabilities
Manny Steinman was only a child during the eight years he spent at Faribault State Hospital, but some things he'll never forget.
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Filed Under: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Olmsted decision, criminal justice, housing, long-term care

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