Lack of Funding leads to Attrition in Senior Care Centers

Recently, I read an article that reminded me that our own government has consistently under funded important social programs in America. An advocacy group for the disabled of Canada indicated that if the government continues to refuse support to non profit disabled senior care facilities, senior citizens in Alberta will bear the effects.

Senior Care Centers are only able to pay their employees 14 –18 dollars per hour, compared to public sector pay scales of 21 – 30 dollars per hour. This disparity in pay has caused Senior Care facilities to reach the breaking point, and if the Canadian government does not step in and increase funding by at least 182 million, there will be multiple closings.

Currently, Alberta has about 300 such care facilities that are experiencing 40 to 65 percent employee turn over rates due to the Seniors Center’s inability to compete with public sector pay scales. Consequently, the remaining staff is overworked and underpaid. The Canadian funding crisis is even affecting the number of individuals who are choosing to enter college rehabilitation programs.

As populations across the North American continent age, senior care is becoming both an important social and political issue that will have to be addressed in some meaningful way. Without a doubt, more consideration and planning for changing demographics will have to occur.






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MS Musings

Ms Musings is an online monthly magazine written by and for those with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The online magazine celebrates its 100 month in January 2008.

Every month the magazine offers feature stories, short fiction stories, poetry, multiple sclerosis news, recipes, advice, photos, inspirations and more. The magazine can be deep and thought provoking, as well as light and humorous.

Every month the magazine offers a different theme and various writers for different categories. MS Musings accepts unsolicited material.

The site also has a guestbook and a yahoo group: The World of MS Musings.







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Texas Autism Advocacy

Michelle M. Guppy is the mother of a 12-year old son who was diagnosed as non-verbal and autistic by age 2.

Texasautismadvocacy.org is a website she created to share her story, connect with others and offer a wealth of links, books, support groups and resources.

The site is easy to navigate with a clean design and offers pages on events, conferences and meetings in the state of Texas.

On the site you can find ‘guides’ which are pages of various resources. There is an autism resource guide, private school guide, state agency guide, summer camp guide and many other guides to help parents who are dealing with the challenges of autism.







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Oregon PVA

The Oregon Paralyzed Veterans of America, otherwise known as OPVA and found online at oregonpva.com, offers a wide variety of resources and information for Oregon’s paralyzed veterans. The OPVA has been an organization for more than 50 years and offers memberships for only $10 for an entire lifetime. Membership offers participation in various programs, admission to events and a subscription to the bi-monthly magazine, The Paralog.

The OPVA’s website has an abundance of tools and resources, information about legislation and laws and a thorough look at various campaigns. At the site you can sign up for newsletters and browse through the action alerts to find ways you can get involved and help Oregon’s paralyzed veterans. The website states that OPVA helps members and non-members who are spinal cord injured to lead productive lives. The main mission of the organization is to find a cure for paralysis.






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Lymphland

Lymphland.com is the personal site of Tina, a woman living with Lymphedema. Her website explains her story, answers questions about lymphedema and gives resources for more information on lymphedema.

Lymphland.com also has a yahoo web group. There is a place to sign up on the website.

Tina keeps her site personal and intimate and offers her email, phone and fax number and encourages people to reach out to her and others for support, interactivity and friendship.

The Lymphland.com directory has a lot of information about lymphedema, from illustrations on the lymph pathways, breathing exercises and alternative medical treatment articles, to ‘find a doctor’ and ‘find a therapist’.

A word of caution: The site has colorful backgrounds and because of this, is sometimes hard to read.







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Accelerated Cure

The Accelerated Cure Project, according to their website, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to curing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by determining its causes. The website, acceleratedcure.org, serves as a comprehensive resource center for those with MS, those who treat MS and those who are researching MS.

More than simply a website with MS resources, downloads, newsletters, articles, events and other information for a typical website on MS, The Accelerated Cure Project offers ‘The Cure Map’ and ‘The Repository’. The Repository is a large-scale collection of biological samples and other data from people with MS that are offered for study to the scientific community in exchange for access to the data generated. The site offers comprehensive information about this process, the statistics, the projects and the Biobank. You can find all studies on the site.

The Cure Map is a map to document and establish what is known and unknown about the disease. The Accelerate Cure Project hopes to use the repository to help create The Cure Map, thereby advancing efforts to cure the disease.







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Familia dysautonomia

The familiadysautomonmia.org website serves as an online home for the Dysautonomia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization with headquarters in New York City, founded in 1951. The organization has fourteen chapters throughout the world and supports medical research and treatment for people with Familial Dysautonmia, a genetic disease that causes dysfunction of the autonomic and sensory nervous systems.

The website is easy to navigate with a clean design and offers much information about the organization itself, with many pages of articles and resource links, as well as pages on facts, treatments, publications and statistics about the disease.

You can also find pages on recent and upcoming events, a place to donate to the organization and Familial Dysautonomia news articles and resources.






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Ferguson and Ferguson

Ferguson & Ferguson is Randy Ferguson and Jackie Ferguson Graham, a litigation firm located in Huntsville, Alabama. The brother and sister team focus on a wide variety of practice areas from domestic relations, wrongful death and personal injury to bankruptcy, auto accidents and social security issues. On the homepage you can find a scroll down list of their complete practice areas, as well as a simple ‘contact form’ that can be filled out and sent directly to their office with your personal messages about your particular case.

The website also offers a comprehensive glossary of terms for those who need a little legal literary help. They also offer small, online newsletters that focus on personal injury, family law and products liability. Each newsletter has five smallish articles and doesn’t appear to be updated frequently.

The website also has a resource page with a long list of links under different categories. The resource links are interestingly varied from Weight Watchers International and the American College of Rheumatology to links on VIOXX® and Fen-Phen.






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Eric of the misty mountains

Ericofthemistybluemountains.com is a mother’s tribute to her son, Eric Baker, who passed away in 1996 at the age of 23. The site has many pages about Eric and his accomplishments and life, as well his obituary, his mother’s grief journal, family members journals and written tributes, to poetry written in remembrance.

Many pages evoke a sense of emotion and sorrow in me as I connected with the pain and stories shared, and then just as simply a page on jokes and riddles would make me snicker and laugh at the humor that is used to portray the family’s love of life.

While the layout of the site is a little confusing, there are many pages to explore about Eric and a plethora of other topics, from a spiritual index of prayers and obituaries, to riddles, frog jokes, artwork and information on
anti-abortion.

Be warned, the site does have music that plays upon visiting and has many broken links, but it is also a good place for families who have lost a child to connect with a family that has shared their grief and loss and are dealing with it through self expression.







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Working while getting Disability - is it possible?

Yes, it is possible to work while getting disability. However, an individual who does this needs to be mindful of at least two things.

The first is that though while working and getting disability benefits from the social security administration is allowed, to continue to qualify for benefits an individual cannot earn more than substantial gainful activity. What is substantial gainful activity? It is a monetary amount for monthly earnings and individuals who earn at least this amount each month are not eligible for disability (to learn what the current SGA amount is, you should contact a local social security office as it changes annually).

The second issue, however, is that work activity can trigger a medical review of a claimant's case prior to when a review might ordinarily have occurred. Sometimes, this can mean being reviewed years earlier than might have been the case.

Individuals who feel, of course, that their condition is improving and would possibly like to return to work should not feel discourgaged from working. However, they should be mindful of the fact that work activity and earnings implicitly carry with them the possibility of affecting one's disability benefits.






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Designing Accessible Communities

Designing AccessibleCommunities.org is a non-profit organization formed in 2006 that exists to provide education and information about building accessibility to disabled persons and professionals in the fields of code development, construction and design. The site states that their mission is to “promote, facilitate, and support the use of policies, accessible design, and manufactured products to ensure that all individuals, regardless of disability or age, are able to live within and participate fully in all aspects of their community and our society”.

On the site, you can find many sections of information and education about accessible designing, from ‘Accessible Products and New Technology’, ‘Codes and Regulations’ and ‘Policies’, to resources on disability information, assistive technology, built environment and design, as well as recreation and travel. The site also has a small section on media, which includes book reviews, articles, news, video, magazines and journals.

According to the website, the organization works with public and private groups to ensure that buildings and facilities are accessible through a variety of modes, such as technical assistance, education, professional consulting, and regulatory training and code development. The organization is an advocate of Universal Design, which is design that is simplified for use by as many people as possible with little or no extra cost, benefiting those of all abilities and ages.






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Here for the People

Hereforthepeople.com is the website for the Hensley Legal Group, PC, serving Indianapolis and the surrounding areas. The legal group consists of three attorneys: John D. Hensley, Katrina J. Hecht and Sarah Graziano. As their site states, the Hensley Legal Group is a law firm dedicated to personal injury cases, from auto accidents and traumatic brain injury to nursing home abuse, dog bites and social security disability.

The website for the Hensley Group is easy to navigate and reasonably straightforward. It has an ‘About Us’ section and a profile page for each lawyer. It also has a section for more information about each area of practice with informational links and a personal injury FAQ.

Hereforthepeople.com also features a handy form called ‘What’s My Case Worth?’, where you can input the information of your case and The Hensley Legal Group will contact you with more information, free of charge.






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