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Social isolation among elderly peaks in winter months
Seniors can feel especially isolated in the winter months.
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La Crosse County hopes to provide two generations with care at proposed intergenerational center
La Crosse County is hoping to address a local shortage of available childcare by creating an intergenerational day center at the county-owned nursing home. The proposed center would offer respite care for people with dementia and other older adults alongside daycare for children at the Hillview Health Care Center in La Crosse. Carissa Pagel-Smith, director…
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When will Wisconsinites see relief from high drug prices? A health insurance broker weighs in
This year, Medicare will start negotiating lower prescription drug prices. But one Wisconsin insurance broker says people will have to wait a few years to see prices go down. The first 10 drugs to be made more affordable are widely used to treat blood clots, heart conditions, diabetes, kidney disease, arthritis and blood cancer. These…
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Teen work permits with 19th century roots would be eliminated under GOP bill
An industry-backed push to eliminate child work permits for 14-and-15-year-olds in Wisconsin would partially roll back child labor protections that have roots in the 19th century. GOP lawmakers and business groups backing the move argue it would cut government red tape, but state regulators warned at a public hearing on the plan Thursday it will…
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Advocacy groups hope to revive bill requiring hospitals to better communicate with family caregivers
Organizations advocating for older adults and people with disabilities are hoping to build new support for a bill that would require Wisconsin hospitals to communicate with a patient’s family caregivers. The Caregiver Advise, Record and Enable, or CARE, Act was first introduced in the 2019-20 legislative session. It would require hospitals to allow patients to…
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Northwoods tribal leader reflects on 40th anniversary of court protecting treaty rights
This year marks the 40th anniversary of a landmark ruling that reaffirmed the 1837 treaty rights of a northern Wisconsin tribe to hunt, fish and gather on ceded territory. In 1983, two brothers from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fred and Mike Tribble, were arrested for spearfishing outside the boundaries of…
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Wisconsin’s Driftless region is the setting for Rebecca Gilman’s off-Broadway play, ‘Swing State’
In a lower Manhattan off-Broadway theater, tucked away from the traffic and bright lights, an old farm house nestled on 40 acres of remnant prairie introduces theatergoers to a Wisconsin woman making zucchini bread, and Rebecca Gilman’s play “Swing State” begins. The play, set “somewhere in the Driftless area of Wisconsin” in the late summer…
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Wisconsin seeks to virtually train 10K new caregivers amid job shortages
State authorities and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay are seeking to train 10,000 people this year as certified direct care professionals with a new online program. The $1.85 million program is free to participants and is being funded mostly by federal aid, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The agency says the state’s…
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American poverty can be abolished, Pulitzer winner Matthew Desmond argues in new book
After netting a Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for writing a book about evictions in Milwaukee, Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond sought to tackle a broader lens: Why is there so much poverty in a nation as wealthy as the United States? In his new book releasesd this year, “Poverty, by America,” the University of…
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Wisconsin health department introduces new independent living pilot program
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is introducing a new pilot program to help people live at home independently. The project, funded by the federal American Rescue Plan Act, allocates $7,200 in one-time funding for eligible residents to access resources and services in their home, said Wisconsin Medicaid Director Jamie Kuhn. She said it’s one…
