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University of Miami Center on Aging: Demographics of an Aging Society
On their face, the statistics are striking. In 2006, about 37 million people in the United States were 65 or…
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Global Population Aging
The world population is aging at an exponential rate; factors include the baby boomer generation growing older, the general population…
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Coming Soon: Slowing Human Aging
Once only a prospect of science fiction, modern medical advances are closer than ever to determining ways to slow human…
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Suffering in Silence
When considering domestic violence, most individuals would not immediately conjur images of aging persons who have suffered physical or psychological…
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Confronting the Challenges of Elder Abuse
This presentation provided a statistical and historic overview of the scope of the nation’s elder abuse, neglect and exploitation problem;…
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HuffPo: EMR cost estimates involve ‘fuzzy math’
Fred Schulte, writing for the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, worked to understand the math needed to attach a $19 billion…
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Reporting Health Stories from any Beat
These presentations are from the California Chicano News Media Association's Job Opportunities Conference, Oct. 15 & 16, in Los Angeles.…
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Digging Into Hospital Finances: Recent trends and five key documents
Karl Stark of The Philadelphia Inquirer has written an extensive tip sheet on covering hospital finances – an especially daunting…
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Doctor’s path shows licensing’s weaknesses
The Associated Press’ Jay Reeves exposes systemic flaws in state medical licensing through the story of a physician who was…
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Under 1959 law, hospitals claim right to bill county for charity care
David Gulliver of Sarasota Health News found an almost-surreal local story that demonstrates just how desperate some recession-bitten hospitals have…
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