SOURCE: National Institutes of Health; BY Carol Torgan, Ph.D. At a Glance Unpaid caregivers who helped with the health care of older adults experienced emotional, physical, and financial difficulties, as well as lower work productivity. The findings provide a better understanding of the unmet needs and challenges of this often invisible workforce, which plays a key role in the health care system. Family and other unpaid caregivers perform many activities on a regular basis as […]
By Dr. Adam Breiner, ND With spring sports like baseball, softball, and soccer coming up, parents need to be aware of why concussions are such serious injuries and how they can be treated. Here are six important things every parent should know about concussions. Concussions have traditionally been associated with high-impact sports like football, and even in this setting, knocks on the head that don’t “seem” serious have often been brushed off. However, it’s becoming […]
Six Organizations Receive Grants from the Special Hope Foundation Evidence-Based Cost and Quality of Care Research Grants for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (Palo Alto, CA, February 22, 2016) — The Special Hope Foundation and the Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry are pleased to announce that six organizations serving the healthcare needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities were selected to receive funding for their research projects. These grants will support a variety of […]
Meeting Our Greatest Challenges: The President’s Fiscal Year 2017 Budget Expanding Opportunities for People with Disabilities Under the President’s leadership, we have turned our economy around and created 14 million jobs. Our unemployment rate is below five percent for the first time in almost eight years. Nearly 18 million people have gained health coverage as the Affordable Care Act has taken effect. And we have dramatically cut our deficits by almost three-quarters and set our […]
New research shows that children with autism experience higher levels of sensory discomfort at school than children who do not have autism – and this affects their ability to learn. The study, published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, was carried out by Fiona Howe and Dr Steven Stagg of Anglia Ruskin University. The research, which was conducted at three schools in the East of England, found that 88% of children with autism […]
