Aging News Alert
Aging News Alert reports on successful senior programs, funding opportunities, and federal actions affecting the elderly. It covers the Older Americans Act, long-term care, Social Security and Medicare, transportation, health and nutrition,senior law, elder abuse, and much more. Every issue provides an independent outlook on Congressional legislation and agency regulation, with inside news from the Administration on Aging, Social Security Administration,the National Institute on Aging, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Health Care Financing Administration, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It also contains interviews with government officials and association representatives and details how state and local governments provide critical services cost-effectively.Aging News Alert also describes grants available from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation,and the Health Resources and Services Administration. In addition, Aging News Alert highlights corporate and foundation grants.(est. 1984)
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(GRANTS) Seed Money Available for Start-Up Dementia Day Care Programs
Mar 12, 2010 10:04am
The Brookdale Foundation Group is requesting proposals for the start-up of social model Group Respite or Early Memory Loss programs for people with Alzheimer's disease and their family caregivers. This November, the foundation will be awarding up to 40 seed grants for the development of dementia-specific Group respite programs or...
(GRANTS) CNCS Has $2.7 Million To Dole Out for RSVP Grants
Mar 12, 2010 9:39am
The federal government's Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) is making available $2.7 million for its RSVP program. RSVP is an initiative that engages people age 55 and older in a diverse range of volunteer activities that deliver valuable services to meet community needs while providing an enriching experience...
(HOUSE) 'Dear Colleague' Letters Plead For Housing Money
Mar 12, 2010 7:55am
Housing subcommittee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) writes HUD appropriations subcommittee Chairman John Olver (D-MA) and Ranking Republican Tom Latham (IA) seeking $5 billion for public housing capital needs and $5 billion for operations. Waters wants the panel to restore money to the Sec. 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly program...
(SENATE) Reid Makes It Official: Senate Dems Will Use Reconciliation to Pass Healthcare
Mar 11, 2010 1:43pm
In a formal letter sent this afternoon (March 11) to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) made it official: He will use a controversial parliamentary procedure -- the reconciliation process -- to pass part of the healthcare reform bill, a process that prevents Republicans...
(MEN'S HEALTH) Cancer Expert Wants Prostate Test Curtailed
Mar 11, 2010 1:18pm
Doing away with unnecessary lab work is a good way to curb healthcare costs, says Richard Ablin, and one such laboratory procedure is the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, regularly used to screen men for prostate cancer. About two thirds of all prostrate cancers are diagnosed in men age 65 and...
(AHRQ) High Cholesterol, Diabetes Lead Drug Spending for Elderly
Mar 11, 2010 9:22am
Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007 (the most recent year for which data are available) -- about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, according to the latest data from the Agency for Healthcare...
(PHILANTHROPY) Communities Benefit from Advocacy, Civic Engagement, Report Shows
Mar 11, 2010 8:53am
Nonprofits, as well as the communities they serve, benefit enormously through advocacy and civic engagement, says the latest in a series of reports from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). A just-released five-year study finds that vast improvements were made in many areas, including affordable housing, education, environment, human...
(FORUM) Medicare, Private Sector Can Collaborate to Improve Healthcare Quality, Cut Costs, Experts Say
Mar 10, 2010 1:26pm
Medicare has the potential of playing a powerful role in partnership with the private sector in shaping healthcare reform, two experts tell participants at the at a March 10 session of the National Policy Forum of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP). ...
(FORUM) Despite Protest, AHIP Panelists Optimistic About Reform
Mar 10, 2010 1:21pm
Although an anti-health-insurance-industry demonstration led by the AFL-CIO filled an entire block March 9 outside the hotel where the National Policy Forum of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is being held in Washington, DC, the speakers on the first day of the two-day meeting were quite upbeat about the outlook...
(SLEEP) New Guidelines Emerge for Treatment of Sleep Disorders in the Elderly
Mar 10, 2010 12:47pm
A groundbreaking report from the American Geriatric Society (AGS) finds that clinical intervention for sleep disorders in older adults can successfully treat or improve the quality of sleep in most cases. The guidelines, a first-of-its-kind addressing specifically sleep disorders in the elderly, show a distinct relationship between sleep and other...
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