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The latest news and blog posts highlighting policy, advocacy, issues, innovations, and lived experiences in aging and disability.
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Mental Health
Converging Paths, Equal Ground: The Promise of Mental Health Parity
Physical and mental health services have long been unequal, both in the delivery of care and in the public conversation.
Employment & Workforce
5 Reasons Hiring People with Disabilities is Good for Business – And the Rest of Us
Hiring people with disabilities doesn’t just allow businesses to tap into a huge and talented workforce; it improves culture, benefits the bottom line, is responsive to government guidelines, and is easier than ever – with new technologies, public-private partnerships, and new ways of doing business coming together to build inclusive workplaces.
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Medicare & Medicaid
Social Security
Happy Anniversary, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ADA and the ACA!
Americans love anniversaries, whether it is the birth of our nation on July 4, our parents’ 50th, Pearl Harbor or 9/11.
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Generation ADA, We Are Leaders Today!
A hotel suite jam packed with Disabled and Deaf youth, of all different backgrounds and identities, from all across the country, prepping for the largest national celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
What We're Reading
What We’re Reading: “Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review”
This literature review found promising indications that some models of integrated health and social care for the elderly can result in improved outcomes, client satisfaction and/or cost savings or cost-effectiveness.
Aging
America’s Other Social Nemesis: Ageism and Elder Abuse - Part 1
In a series on aging and elder Abuse, NAB Member Charles Christiansen examines the unique connection between aging and elder abuse and ways that our society has maligned one of America’s largest and growing populations .
Mental Health
Minority Mental Health Month
Sita Diehl is the (ret.) Director of State Policy and Advocacy for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and member of the National Advisory Board.
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Reset AllA modernized healthcare infrastructure is crucial to preserving independence for people with disabilities and older adults.
The National Advisory Board believes that the modernized healthcare infrastructure required to meet the goals, preferences, and needs of older adults and individuals with disabilities must include the Six Principles. Please join with us in promoting and furthering them.