Policy & law - On a tide of community anger, the time has come for sexual...
It's almost three years since the state's senior law officer saw that something had to happen with sexual consent. Still we await legislation.
View ArticlePolicy & law - Cuomo aide allegedly involved in hiding nursing home death...
One of the senior aides to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused of rewriting a State Health Department report to hide the real number of nursing home residents that died amid the...
View ArticlePolicy & law - California sues major US nursing home operator over ratings
California's attorney general and local officials say the nation's largest senior living home operator misled consumers on quality ratings and broke laws intended to protect...
View ArticlePolicy & law - Experts urge shift to recognize work behind food safety
People have to learn how to talk differently about food as it is not an accident it is safe, according to an FAO expert. Markus Lipp, senior food safety officer at the Food and...
View ArticlePolicy & law - ‘Another blow': Fears over koala habitat veto for Barilaro's...
The publication of the state's new koala habitat policy has revealed a senior regional NSW official has the right to reject management plans by councils.
View ArticlePolicy & law - Linda Lacewell, one of Cuomo's senior aides accused of...
A senior aide of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was accused of rewriting a report from the state's Department of Health , has worked as a law professor in Manhattan and taught...
View ArticlePolicy & law - AARP's Global Council on Brain Health Offers Recommendations...
The Global Council on Brain Health , an independent collaborative of scientists, health professionals, scholars, and policy experts from around the world who are working in...
View ArticlePolicy & law - Electrifying all US trucks will save the country $485 billion...
Electrifying medium- and heavy-duty trucks reduces pollution-related costs and dramatically improve environmental conditions in poor neighborhoods, according to Jennifer...
View ArticlePolicy & law - Older Adult Population Driving Growth in Mass. ‘Dual Eligible'...
According to Mass Medicaid Policy Institute's report, “ A Primer on the Dual Eligible Population in Massachusetts ,” over the past five years, MassHealth dual eligible...
View ArticlePolicy & law - Report: Growing Assistive Technology Awareness through State...
Building partnerships through collaboration between assistive technology programs and long-term services and supports agencies is one way to expand awareness and facilitate...
View ArticlePolicy & law - Age-Friendly Funding Alert: Tufts Health Plan Foundation,...
Periodically, the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative shares funding opportunities that advance inclusive, age- and dementia friendly community efforts along with...
View ArticlePolicy & law - MHAC Launches ‘Equity in Aging' Committee and Ongoing Webinar...
The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative launched ‘ Equity in Aging ‘ in a kickoff webinar that featured resources and along with age- and dementia friendly...
View ArticlePolicy & law - ‘Invisible woman syndrome': Nine men appointed to Federal...
Senior women in the law say new federal attorney-general Michaelia Cash must improve gender equality after the Coalition appointed no women to the Federal Court in Victoria.
View ArticlePolicy & law - AARP Creates Intro Webpage to Help Age-Friendly Communities...
The Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative is pleased to promote the resources created and maintained by the AARP Livable Communities team, including a new “welcome” webpage...
View ArticlePolicy & law - New move to drive down unemployment over spending cuts marks...
Today on Please Explain, senior economics reporter Shane Wright and host Nathanael Cooper look at the federal government's major shift in rhetoric and budget policy.
View ArticlePolicy & law - ‘Time to challenge the status quo': ACP shares its plan to...
Better health care benefits both patients and physicians. However, more efforts are needed to achieve this goal, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine...
View ArticlePolicy & law - AP-NORC Survey: Long-Term Care in America and Americans...
Given the choice, a sizable majority of the public would prefer to receive long-term care in a home setting as they age rather than move into a nursing home, according to a new...
View ArticlePolicy & law - Alzheimer's Advisory Council Releases Massachusetts State Plan...
The Massachusetts Alzheimer's Advisory Council, established under Chapter 220 of the Acts of 2018 , released the Massachusetts State Plan on Alzheimer's Disease and Related...
View ArticlePolicy & law - Global Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis in India
WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Amesh Adalja, MD, senior scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about a variety of topics including the...
View ArticlePolicy & law - AARP and Congress for the New Urbanism Release ‘A Handbook for...
A new toolkit developed by AARP Livable Communities and the Congress for the New Urbanism called Enabling Better Places: A Handbook for Improved Neighborhoods provides options...
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