New health law offers protection against elder abuse, but advocates complain provision is not funded
New health law offers protection against elder abuse, but advocates complain provision is not funded
As baby boomers and their parents age, many stumble across an unsettling surprise — elder abuse that occurs in both institutions and the home. The problem, and the lack of a national strategy to combat it, is something that advocates for the elderly have been complaining about for years. So they fought for, and won, provisions in the new health law (PL 111-148) that are designed to address the …
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Couple see God’s hand in four new add-ons
Couple see God’s hand in four new add-ons
For several years, the minister and his wife had prayed for one more child. Then, when Lance Morrisett found out his wife, Jennifer, was expecting last July, he took her to dinner in celebration of God’s answer.
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Helping helpless critters of all sizes
Helping helpless critters of all sizes
If anyone had told retired nurse Judy Miller six years ago that she would be putting her healing skills to use saving orphaned baby mice, she would never have believed it. But that is just what she found herself doing recently after a youngster brought in eight newborn mice whose mother had been [...]
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Society daily 22.04.2010
Society daily 22.04.2010
Women in labour, big society blues, and a ’squalid’ episode Top SocietyGuardian news and comment NHS turned away 750 women in labour last year Sex offenders win human rights appeal Mother jailed for neglect of baby son NHS struggles with ’superobese’ mums-to-be Gallery: Len Grant’s photographs of social exclusion All today’s SocietyGuardian stories Other news * The public has limited appetite …
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Ronald Isley Released From Jail, Taps Lauryn Hill and T.I. for New Album
Ronald Isley Released From Jail, Taps Lauryn Hill and T.I. for New Album
Filed under: R’n'B News , Don’t Call It a Comeback Legendary R&B singer, Ronald Isley , was released from jail this month after completing a three-year and one month sentence for tax evasion. The 68-year-old singer begin his sentence in 2007, after a September 2006 trial found him guilty on five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file a tax return. Although Isley’s lawyers …
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