The Social Security Administration maintains a blog with helpful information and resources for persons with disabilities. An article entitled Government Programs for Children with Special Needs was posted in the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published final rules setting nurse staffing standards for nursing facilities, as promised by President Biden’s nursing home reform agenda. The final…
Your most valuable property may be your home, which is true for many people. You likelywant your children to inherit that value when you pass away. However,you mayalso haveconcernsaboutplanningfor the…
Playing video games has long been difficult for people with disabilities. The controllers for the PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo can be very hard, or even impossible, to use for people…
The No Surprises Act is a federal law enacted to protect patients from unexpected medical bills incurred on or after January 1, 2022. It aims to address the issue of…
A great many disabled adults in Mississippi, including a number of our clients, receive Medicaid assistance (personal care attendants, home-delivered meals, adult day care) through the Medicaid Elderly & Disabled…
S.B. is a student in the Bass Lake School District. Following a series of complaints and hearings, Bass Lake was ordered in December 2020 to comply with an individualized education…
Prevalence About 1 in 36 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) according to estimates from CDC’s Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. [Read article] ASD is…
The recently passed Consolidated Appropriations Act and its SECURE 2.0 provisions address many matters of interest to older adults and persons with disabilities. Some of those provisions are summarized below. …
TUESDAY, May 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Type 2 diabetes is linked to memory and thinking problems, and a new study suggests it's because the disease makes the brain age…
