New York City Transit to Feature Portraits of Gay Seniors

Subways and buses in New York City will soon display portraits of gay and lesbian seniors. According to an article in Newsday, the Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders organization spent $350,000 on the campaign, which features the slogan, “There’s no expiration date on a full, active life.”
The group’s executive director, Michael Adams, told the [...]

Postal Service Issues Alzheimer’s Awareness Stamp

Washington, DC —According to the Alzheimer’s Association, every 71 seconds, someone in America develops Alzheimer’s disease. For these individuals and their families, the significance of this moment cannot be underestimated as it marks the beginning of a devastating descent into memory loss. For the person with Alzheimer’s, interaction with the caregiver means everything.
To raise awareness [...]

In Sour Economy, Some Scale Back on Medications

For the first time in at least a decade, the nation’s consumers are trying to get by on fewer prescription drugs.
As people around the country respond to financial and economic hard times by juggling the cost of necessities like groceries and housing, drugs are sometimes having to wait.
“People are having to choose between gas, [...]

Medicare and McCain

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Friday that Republican rival John McCain wants to cut $882 billion from Medicare over a decade to finance his health care plan and the result would be more costly drugs, diminished services and lower quality care for seniors.
Sen. Obama said it’s entirely consistent with Sen. McCain’s record during his [...]

Climbing Down the Ladder

By BOB HERBERT
NY Times Published: October 17, 2008
I asked Kim Richardson, who is 59 and lives in a modest
ranch house in Rocky Mount, N.C., what she would do if a
hearing next month goes against her and she loses her home
to foreclosure.
After a long pause, she said, in a voice faint from worry,
“I don’t know. [...]

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