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People With Dementia Still At Risk Of Exclusion From End Of Life And Palliative Care Services, UK Admiral Nurses welcome the key areas identified within the End of Life Care Strategy, which echo many of the overarching principles contained in the recently launched National Dementia Strategy consultation, and welcome, in particular, in both strategies the specific recognition of the needs of carers. Sophie Suffers From A Rare Form Of Mitochondrial Disease That Has Made Her Muscles Extremely Weak, Website Launched A new website has been created by the parents of a child who suffers from a serious, incurable illness, to tell their story and provide information for other parents who are going through similar experiences. The website - www.thesophiestory.co.uk - has a links page, a blog, photos, medical information, an email mailing list, and their own story from the beginning. Clearer, Fairer Funding For The Third Sector - Details Of The Third Sector Investment Programme Published, UK Care Services Minister, Ivan Lewis, today announced new funding arrangements for Third Sector organisations in health and social care that will make funding more transparent and effective. The new system, known as the Third Sector Investment Programme, replaces the 'Section 64 General Scheme of Grants'. There will be two new funding schemes for 2009/10, which are now open for applications. Wall Street Journal Examines Calls For Regulation Of Home Health Care Industry To Prevent Abuses By Caregivers As Industry Grows The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined calls to increase oversight of the expanding home care industry in light of a "growing number of cases of abuse, neglect or fraud in which home caregivers take advantage of the frail and the ill." The trend toward home health care is seen as a way of keeping elderly U.S. Homecare Industry Urges Congress To Overturn Veto Of Medicare Bill, Which Preserves Access To Home Medical Equipment And Saves Taxpayers Billions Statement by Tyler Wilson, President and CEO American Association for Homecare, July 15, 2008. It is unfortunate that President Bush has chosen to veto H.R. 6331, "The Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008." This legislation would save taxpayers billions of dollars through reduced spending on home medical equipment and it would help seniors and people with disabilities to continue receive quality home medical equipment and services through Medicare. Price Versus Cost Of Effective Use For Home Devices It was disappointing to see Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt leading the effort to retain the competitive bidding program implemented this month for medical equipment providers who service Medicare beneficiaries ("Will Congress Continue a Medicare Scam? ," op-ed, July 9). He fails to mention the problems with the bidding program. The Cost Of Raising A Child With Special Needs: Where Does Your State Rank? Therapies, rehabilitation and specialty medical care are just a few of the extra costs that parents face when raising children with special needs. In a new study that will be published in current issue of Pediatrics, Paul T. Shattuck, Ph.D., professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis, found that families with similar demographics and nature of their children's special needs have different out-of-pocket health expenditures depending on the state in which they live. Minister Maire Hoctor Welcomes Additional Financial Support Of 12 Million Euros For Older People In Nursing Homes Maire Hoctor TD, Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children with responsibility for Older People, welcomed the provision of 12 million euros in additional supports for older people in private nursing homes. The Minister stated that she is very conscious of the effect that the unavoidable and unforeseen delays in implementing the new Fair Deal Scheme is having on older people in long term residential care. New Book Looks At Long-Term Care And Uncertainties For Elderly Baby Boomers The continued decline of the nursing home - once the mainstay care for the frail elderly - and an upsurge in popularity of assisted living will lead to many dramatic changes in long-term care, according to a University of Florida expert and editor of a new book on the subject. Medicare Bidding Program Creates Major Problems For Physicians, Hospitals, And Beneficiaries Seeking Home Medical Equipment The new Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment has created concern and chaos for beneficiaries, physicians, hospital discharge officials, and home medical equipment providers across the country since it was implemented in 10 metropolitan areas on July 1.