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CCA021020 Minutes of a meeting of the Communications & Community Affairs Committee held October 29, 2002, at the citysoup.ca Innovation Centre, 1207 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam. The Committee reviewed the previous minutes and related comments submitted by Mr. D. Norman. E. Doepker would seek a legal opinion on the content ownership. C. Barnard conducted a presentation regarding the PLAN FOR LAUNCH communication plan for the citysoup.ca launch scheduled for December 5, 2002. Committee members were invited to e-mail Edie Doepker who will forward to Ms. UPDATE ON THE 3.5 Mr. G. Vlassopoulos presented a report regarding the Smart SMART CHOICES Choices Annual General Meeting. Wealden Choices WW As Chairman of the Wealden Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) it gives me great pleasure to present this first 'Community Strategy' for Wealden, which we believe will bring about significant improvements in the economic, social and environmental well being of the Wealden area.This strategy is underpinned by an action plan which sets out key short, medium and long-term targets for addressing local needs. A major public consultation exercise was undertaken during the Spring and Summer of 2002 involving 625 Wealden residents, many of whom were interviewed in their own homes by their local Councillor. Most people in Wealden felt that links between business and education was the most important element in improving the prosperity of Wealden (86%). ohd4609 health, care, Oregon, health insurance, income, households, Medicare, coverage, reporting, OHP, cost, respondents, poverty level, annual income, afford. The BRFS is an ongoing survey of adults in randomly chosen households with telephones. 65 years or older are covered by health insurance (including Medicare), coverage is lower for working-age adults---only 80% of Oregonians 18 to 35 years old, for example. 2 to 3 times more likely than those with coverage to report that they did not seek medical care when needed because of cost considerations. Implemented in February, 1994, the OHP expanded Medicaid eligibility so that all households below the poverty level were eligible for a basic health care package. Coverage for some diagnoses was limited, based on a rankordered list. reportcard health plan, survey, care, ratings, overall ratings, meaning, scale, members, Employee, complaints, participating, grievance, Unity-Community, Health Tradition, Physicians Plus. The health plan you choose can make a difference in the quality of care you get. With help from the It's Your Choice booklet, use the survey results and other information to decide which health plan is best for you and your family. This chart shows results for individual survey questions that asked people to give their overall ratings of their health plan, health care and doctors. *Effective September 1, 2001 La Crosse Care Plus has changed their name to Health Tradition. ***Effective September 1, 2001 La Crosse Care Plus has changed their name to Health Tradition. Of the 68% of complaints resolved in favor of the member, 16% were resolved through the health plan grievance process without direct ETF intervention. Health Facts Chapter 5 http://www.careline.org.uk/download/Health Facts Chapter 5.pdf health, England, survey, standard, districts, deaths, Nation, MSW, proportion, age, London, residents, drinking, cancer, care. Over 22 per 100 (age standardised rate) of local residents surveyed indicated that they had fair or bad health. This is a worse health status than in comparable districts. However it is not borne out by any findings of an unusually high level of longstanding illness in the same survey. The Health Survey for England (HSE) commissioned by the Department of Health, presents key indicators of general health, prevalence of risk factors and morbidity patterns at Health Authority level using data combined over the period 1994 to 1996. This is the international standard diagnostic classification for all general epidemiological and many health management purposes. 1842630997 http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/eBooks/1842630997.pdf Direct Payments, mental health, care, support, conference, lives, control, making choices, users/survivors, meeting, disability, community, life, practitioners, schemes. © National Centre for Independent Living 2002 First published 2002 by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation/YPS All rights reserved. Val contributed helpful insights into the practical support that was available from WECIL, to enable people to plan for, gain access to and use Direct Payments. ILSA gives advice, information and support to disabled people, to enable them to use Direct Payments to live independently. For others, they were concerned that if they did not have a care plan or were not on the Care Programme Approach care plan, they would never get access as the eligibility criteria for a community care assessment were high. getalong care, facilities, housing, health care, disabilities, assisted living, clients, Michael, seniors, advocates, residents, law, Fair Housing Act, CCRC, perspectives. But as natural as the pairing seems to be, seniors and people with disabilities do not always have the same interests -- or, at least, advocates for seniors and advocates for people with disabilities approach their advocacy from different perspectives. They are planning for the future, and interested in a continuing care retirement community (CCRC). That's a direct violation of the Fair Housing Act regulations, which say that a housing provider cannot inquire about the existence or severity of a disability. If they are to be admitted, they shouldn't have to fear that a change in their medical conditions will jeopardize their housing. Eric But CCRCs and assisted living facilities (ALFs) are not your ordinary landlords. They also are health care providers or, at a minimum, have responsibility to assure that their residents' health care needs are met. YourRightToDecide health care, agent, physician, adults, directives, care, medication, treatment, instructions, Virginia, law, pain, life-prolonging, terminate, living. These rights include the right to accept or refuse care and the right to make advance directives about their care. This includes the power to consent to amounts of pain-relieving medication in excess of recommended dosages in order to relieve pain, even if such doses may make me addicted or unintentionally hasten my death. Your agent will be asked to speak for you and be your advocate. Talking clarifies your wishes and keeps your agent from struggling to decide if he or she is "doing the right thing" regarding your health care decisions even if they do not agree with previously stated wishes. trail trail, kit, saddle, bag, Bandage, VSI, aid, Adhesive Tape, eye, Wound Pads, fits, Mini Trail, first aid, Vet, quality items. This denim trail bag fits on your saddle horn and includes 13 of the items recommended most to treat wounds and eye injury. The VSI Trail Kit(TM) contains the same quality items as the Vet Kit(TM) and is packaged in a saddlehorn bag that will easily fit any Western saddle. Convenient as well as comprehensive, this first aid kit will let you be prepared for your horse's next emergency on the trail. The Mini Trail Kit(TM) contains the same quality items as the VSI Vet Kit(TM) packaged in a smaller more portable quantity. Mini Trail Kit: A VSI denim bag that can slide on your belt or tie to your saddle. AIMprinciples Medicare, care, coverage, health, prescription drug, plans, providers, private, innovators, seniors, strengthening, AIM, inadequate, Congress, long-term. Prescription drug benefits should be offered to all Medicare beneficiaries as an integral part of Medicare health coverage and the benefit should be added as part of broader efforts to strengthen and improve both the fee-for-service program and Medicare+Choice. Finally, a Medicare prescription drug benefit program should ensure that private health plans have flexibility in designing prescription drug benefits to include proven, private-sector management tools to improve quality of care and to better manage costs. Address the financial crisis facing health plans and providers in order to establish a solid foundation upon which to build a better Medicare. AIM is a coalition of organizations representing seniors, doctors, hospitals, small and large businesses, medical researchers and innovators, insurance plans and providers and others dedicated to improving and strengthening Medicare for all Americans. 20030307Essence Medicare, health, patients, plan, Essence, Esse Health, Deb, providers, insurance, physicians, Louis area, apart, loyal patient population, locally managed company, Deb observes. Esse Health is taking a giant step in realizing its mission: Leading the health care community by placing patients and their physicians at the center of health decisions. In ten short months -- starting January 1, 2004 -- our Medicare patients will have a new choice in health plans, a choice that is being created and will be managed by Esse Health's physicians. Essence will be a so-called Medicare+ Choice insurance plan and will be completely owned and operated by Esse Health. Asked what will distinguish Essence from other Medicare choices, Deb observes: "Essence is a provider owned, locally managed company with a loyal patient population. CHOICES_ENG lung cancer, treatment, therapy, chemotherapy, life, surgery, doctor, radiation, drugs, exercises, treatment options, living longer, guide, disease, lung cancer patients. Provided by: Lung cancer may be the greatest challenge of your life, but you can face it with more hope than ever before. In the last 10 years, important advances have been made in all the major areas of therapy for this disease. People who have been diagnosed with lung cancer are now living longer and enjoying a better quality of life during treatment. How much radiation you receive will depend on several factors, such as your overall health and the kind of lung cancer you have. Treatments usually last for several weeks, and are followed by a rest period of a few weeks before the next cycle begins. vol4no2 http://www.irpp.org/choices/archive/vol4no2.pdf child care, income, employment, governments, families, costs, subsidy, lone mothers, subsidy system, eligibility, provinciaux, social assistance, earnings, incentives, parents. In this context, a review of the cost-effectiveness of Canadian child care subsidies is most appropriate. Subsidized child care assists low-income parents in joining the labour force, which matches the broad trend in social policy toward active rather than passive measures. Social Criteria ---Applicants should be employed, looking for employment or being trained for employment (subsidies are given to families who are not employed if there are special risks in relation to child development or treatment, but we do not focus in this paper on subsidies given for this reason); Financial Criteria --- Families must have a total net (after income and payroll taxes) income which is lower than some turningpoint level in order to get a "full" subsidy; above that level of net income, the subsidy is reduced by 50 cents for each additional dollar of net income (there is some variation in this tax-back rate). real_choices_campaign http://www.idahohealth.org/real_choices_campaign.pdf disabilities, communities, stigma, health, Idaho, living, long-term illnesses, housing, Real Choices, abilities, friends, discriminate, Idaho State, Idaho Council, aging. Regardless of age or ability, everyone needs friends. Recognize everyone's contributions Older people and people living with disabilities or long-term illnesses participate in the arts, serve on boards and committees, participate in sports, and add to many other areas of life. Learn about the laws Many laws pertaining to people with aging issues and people living with disabilities or long-term illnesses often are misunderstood. Housing, work, recreation, transportation ---these are all choices that many of us make for ourselves. For some, these choices are limited by stigma. We may discriminate against people without realizing it. They view themselves as people of differing abilities who, like everyone else, may need community support and, sometimes, health services.
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