Elderly, disabled Texans wanting to stay in their homes threatened by low home care pay
For 40 hours a week, Angela Blankenship takes care of Rick Frame, who's been paralyzed from the neck down since a 1999 motorcycle accident.
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For 40 hours a week, Angela Blankenship takes care of Rick Frame, who's been paralyzed from the neck down since a 1999 motorcycle accident.
Apr 5, 2023
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Politicians and scholars sometimes cast obesity as a problem that largely afflicts the poor. But as most obese adults aren't poor and most low-income adults aren't obese, this is a misconception.
Sep 5, 2017
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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have found that risk factors historically linked to cancer mortality vary regionally across the United States (lower 48 states)—such that they believe those differences should ...
Sep 14, 2022
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Even before the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc with the nation's food supply and economy, one in seven adults between the ages of 50 and 80 already had trouble getting enough food because of cost or other issues, a new ...
May 11, 2020
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Utah residents who have difficulty keeping their families fed could be missing a key ingredient: information. A University of Utah Health study finds that poor communications in at least 22 Utah communities could be hampering ...
Mar 9, 2020
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Pediatric researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC), in partnership with Children's HealthWatch investigators in Boston, Minneapolis, Little Rock, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, have found that higher benefit amounts in ...
Oct 12, 2011
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Record numbers of Americans are receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, as food stamps are now known, and many SNAP participants live in neighborhoods with little or no access to healthy food. ...
Mar 15, 2012
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The prevalence of moderate or severe joint pain due to arthritis varies strikingly across American states, ranging from 6.9% of the population in Minnesota to 23.1% in West Virginia, according to a new study led by a University ...
Jul 7, 2023
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Millions of the poorest Americans are probably feeling the aftershocks of the partial government shutdown weeks after it ended.
Mar 6, 2019
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Fewer people are dying from cardiovascular disease in the U.S., according to new research from the University of Georgia. But rural counties and those with a higher percentage of Black residents consistently experienced higher ...
Feb 21, 2023
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