News on Disability Housing is filtering out of Washington DC with the new US Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 811 program. Newly upgraded by President Obama through the Melville Supportive Housing Investment Act of 2010, the new Section 811 program will assist lower income people with disabilities to live in the community in affordable housing linked with voluntary services and supports.
Understanding how the changes in the DMS-IV and ICD-9-CM affect your life can help you manage your own healthcare and education/ work situation.
Yesterday, the Wetzel County commission voted and passed a resolution to officially make January 19th West Virginia Physical Activity Day. This decision comes as a response and effort to support the development of a state-wide Physical Activity Plan in the state of West Virginia.
Every January, the visually impaired and legally blind, their loved ones, and their advocates (many of which sit in one or more of these demographics) recognize Braille Literacy Month. As one can probably ascertain from the title, participants hope to stoke the dwindling use of the revolutionary reading system. Audio technology may have curbed Braille usage in the classroom and workplace, but that doesn’t dilute its significance or usefulness any, of course. Educating oneself and the rest of the populace about visual impairments, blindness, and the reality of Braille marks the best strategy for promoting its prolificacy.
A new bill introduced in Congress would give families a better way to save money for people with disabilities, without taking away their government benefits.
ODEP has developed a new Integrated Employment Toolkit to provide valuable information as individuals, community employment agencies, policymakers and others pursue integrated employment as the desired employment goal for youth and adults with disabilities. The Toolkit includes practical and, in some cases, adaptable information and documents to facilitate the movement of states, organizations and, most importantly, youth and adults to integrated employment as their primary option for employment.
The “DSM” stands for the title “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual” – a book published by the American Psychiatric Association as the manual all doctors use to diagnose medical / psychiatric mental illnesses. The “V” means five, in Roman Numerals. So the key info here is that doctors will soon be getting a new manual – the fifth in a series- to use in determining disability diagnoses like Autism, ADHD, Depression and so on.
Science Daily reports on a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and VA Medical Center research trial to evaluate the effectiveness of Frankincense oil on bladder cancer cells.
Earlier today I came across an interesting article that caught my attention. With the new year just starting and many of us in deep thought as to how we will fulfill our new year’s resolutions, I found this article to be very fitting. If you are like me, you have vowed to make 2012 the year that you become more healthy and fit; if that is the case then the following 5 health gadget maybe of interest to you:
Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a computer-based electronic medical record tool that will help doctors save time and improve accuracy in providing medical care to patients with diabetes.
