Social Workers

Alzheimer's Disease: Is Our Health Care System Ready?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia Diagnosis, Dementia, Nurses, Social Workers, Department of Aging and Adult Services, Alzheimers Disease, Brain Fitness, Memory Walks, Alzheimers Association, Early Detection Alliance, Diagnosis, Healthcare System, Doctors, Cognitive Health, Caregivers, Health Literacy, Psychiatrists, Alzheimer, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Not enough attention seems focused on ensuring health care systems' preparedness to deal with cognitive health issues -- with Alzheimer's Disease as the most dramatic example.

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Letting Go of a Foster Baby, with Great Reluctance

Tamar Abrams | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Foster Parents, Foster Care, Judges, Baby, Arlington-Virginia, Social-Workers, Justice, Guardian Ad Litem, Family Court, Living News
Tamar Abrams

Today I spent three hours in Hell -- the waiting room of the Family Court at the Arlington County, VA courthouse. As the foster parent of an infant, I...

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Social Work and Politics: What's Happening in America

Martha St Jean | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Obama, Dr. Patrica Reid-Merritt, Africana Studies, Politics and Social Work, Social-Workers, Race and Politics, The Black Social Work Movement in America, Race, Richard Stockton College, Barack Obama, Politics News
Martha St Jean

Women who want to keep it all together should always have a plan, burn the candle at both ends and make sure to keep the middle for themselves.

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