But two-thirds of the Medicaid budget is spent on the frail elderly and younger adults with disabilities.
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Family caregivers are the backbone of the support system for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities.
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Managed care for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities has tremendous potential, since people with complex needs are likely to do better with fully-integrated care.
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In his Democratic convention speech this week, Clinton bungled a few of the details, but told a larger truth: Big cuts in Medicaid are likely to mean lost benefits for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities.
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With the presidential election in less than two weeks, consumers, advocates, and providers should pay attention to what Barack Obama and Mitt Romney would do about long-term supports and services for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities.
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Romney, who vows historic reductions in overall federal spending in an effort to balance the budget, may slash programs that support the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities while, at the same time, give states more flexibility in the way they provide many of these services.
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Their home and community-based programs exist on paper, but often are often insufficient for the needs of the frail elderly and those younger people with disabilities who are trying to stay at home.
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In reauthorizing VAWA in 2000, Congress included new VAWA programs and provisions to help particularly vulnerable populations, including younger victims, immigrant victims, the elderly, and persons with disabilities.
But experts also point to a more fundamental change in French society, where there has been a marked drop in the number of elderly people living with the younger generation.
In eras past, the elderly were supported by the coming younger generation(s).
Insp Wayne Tucker, South Wales Police's road safety manager, said while most of those discovered to have bad eyesight were elderly, officers also found many younger people needed sight tests.
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The seasonal flu has been less problematic for younger people, but I believe that the elderly (over 30, 000 die of seasonal flu related complications every year) are sufficiently at risk that the health care workers who treat them should be vaccinated every year for the flu, not just when a pandemic hits.
While the states could point to higher Medicaid costs due to tobacco (poor people are much more likely to be smokers, and smokers have a lot of chronic illnesses) that calculation ignored the fact that smokers also tend to die younger, and so avoid the medical expenses some elderly people run up at the end of life.
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Also being tabled is an amendment to the rights protection law for the elderly, which would make "visiting or contacting elderly family members" a legal requirement for younger family members, according to the Beijing Times and Beijng News.
Elderly people may succumb more readily to inhalation anthrax than younger people, so that if others were in the vicinity of this exposure, and were young, they may not have come down with any problem.
Borda says Obama is appealing to the elderly with his on-screen promises, but is also seeking somewhat younger voters who may have fears about the program's solvency.
Older women are more likely than younger women to leave the labor force for periods of time in order to care for elderly parents, thus forcing them to give up potential lucrative promotions or positions with increasing responsibility and pay.
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Decreasing the age of Medicare and increasing the premiums for this younger group could actually help save Medicare money while providing the government assistance that should be afforded to the elderly.
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