State whacks Adult Day Health Care System
Ron Divino has no family and lives alone in a studio apartment on San Francisco's Howard Street. A stroke left the 58-year-old formerly homeless man partially paralyzed, restricting his ability to get around and create the art that once have him a sense of purpose.
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California Adult Day Health Care on chopping block
Bessie Spears was suicidal when she arrived at an Adult Day Health Care center in San Francisco four months ago. Ben Dubinsky was slipping further into depression until he walked through the center's front doors last year. And Ernest Badger was in pain and barely walking when he started the program eight months ago after hip replacement surgery.
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Adult Day Health Care Centers May Be Axed in Budget Cuts, Affecting Tens of Thousands of Californians
CARMICHAEL, CA - Gov. Brown has made clear that every Californian will have to sacrifice in order to balance the state's $26.6 billion budget deficit. But there is concern that some of California's most vulnerable citizens will end up feeling more than their fair share of the pain.
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Busy Social Life May Stave Off Disability in Elderly
MONDAY, Feb. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Seniors who are more socially active are less likely to become disabled, researchers say.
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Will California Keep Adult Day Health?
Senior advocates are hoping a hearing at the end of last week was a turning point for the Adult Day Health Care Program. It is slated to be eliminated as part of Governor Brown's proposed budget -- but since one committee recommended keeping it while another committee urged its elimination, the fate of the ADHC program has come down to the joint conference committee.
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Brown's Countdown: Jerry's Story
Jerry Woutat takes care of his 76-year old mother Carol, who has dementia. The Sacramento man relies on state-funded adult day health care services to supplement her care. That program would be eliminated under Governor Jerry Brown's budget plan. Follow the link and take 90 seconds to hear NPR's Marianne Russ' discussion with Jerry.
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California Health Advocates Decry "Painful" Cuts for Seniors
California’s newly inaugurated Gov. Jerry Brown Jan. 10 delivered on his promise of a budget that would make everyone share in “painful” cuts. But advocates for seniors are asking why the governor proposes to cut off frail, low-income people, such as “Ishmael,” from services that keep them out of far costlier nursing homes.
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'Boomers' set to swamp US seniors' health program
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The struggling US Medicare program is about to be swamped as the post-World War II generation becomes eligible for the government-administered health insurance for seniors.
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10 Tips to Keep Seniors Out of the Hospital
Repeat visits to the hospital—especially by seniors cost Americans more than $17 billion each year. As many as one in five Medicare patients return to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged. How can we help seniors stay out of the hospital, remain independent and be safer at home? The not-for-profit Visiting Nurse Service of New York has some practical and real world answers.
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Court Rules Against Proposed MediCal Cuts!
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers will have to find more ways to trim spending after an appeals court shot down two budget cuts made in recent years. In separate cases before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, two judges ruled against the state's plans to cut spending in certain social and health care programs.
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Healthcare Reform: What's in it for Seniors?
Healthcare reform has made seniors, by and large uneasy. Older Americans heard the words "cuts" and "Medicare" in the same sentence and were most likely to believe healthcare reform would hurt--not help--them. Lost in the maelstrom of misinformation, however, is the reality that the newly passed legislation lays the groundwork for greatly improving the full continuum of healthcare services for seniors, which includes renovating our nation's non existent long-term care system.
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