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KFF Health News: The Burden of Getting Medical Care Can Exhaust Older Patients
March 27, 2024: Susanne Gilliam, 67, was walking down her driveway to get the mail in January when she slipped and fell on a patch of black ice. Pain shot through her left knee and ankle. After summoning her husband on her phone, with difficulty she made it back ...Read more >
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KFF Health News: America’s Health System Isn’t Ready for the Surge of Seniors With Disabilities
January 17, 2024: The number of older adults with disabilities — difficulty with walking, seeing, hearing, memory, cognition, or performing daily tasks such as bathing or using the bathroom — will soar in the decades ahead, as baby boomers enter their 70s, 80s, an...Read more >
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KFF Health News: Deep Flaws in FDA Oversight of Medical Devices, and Patient Harm, Exposed in Lawsuits and Records
December 21, 2023: Living with diabetes, Carlton “PeeWee” Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream. The pump, manufactured by device maker Medtronic, connected plastic tubing to an insu...Read more >
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Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans Welcomes New Executive Director
December 15, 2023: The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans is happy to announce that our organizer, Krystle Able, has been promoted to executive director. Krystle started with the Illinois Alliance in 2022 as a part time organizer. She is also a labor-endorsed e...Read more >
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KFF Health News: Extra Fees Drive Assisted Living Profits
November 21, 2023: Assisted living centers have become an appealing retirement option for hundreds of thousands of boomers who can no longer live independently, promising a cheerful alternative to the institutional feel of a nursing home. But their cost is so crushi...Read more >
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KFF Health News: Save Billions or Stick With Humira? Drug Brokers Steer Americans to the Costly Choice
September 21, 2023: Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira — about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, known as biosimilars, ...Read more >
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Introducing the New Board of the Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans
September 21, 2023: This past weekend, the IARA hosted our biennial convention at the UAW Pat Greathouse Education Center in Ottawa. We were thrilled to be joined by UAW Illinois political/legislative coordinator John Gedney, our nationa...Read more >
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Illinois Department on Aging Seeks Nominations for Senior Illinoisan Hall of Fame
May 24, 2023: Press Release from Illinois Department on Aging, May 03, 2003 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Department on Aging (IDoA) is reminding residents of the upcoming June 1 nomination deadline for the Senior Illinoisan ...Read more >
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Congressional GOP Members Holding Older Americans Hostage with Default on America Act
May 16, 2023: The Alliance for Retired Americans calls for an increase to the debt ceiling with no strings attached. However, Congressional GOP members are supporting Speaker McCarthy's Default on America Act (H.R. 2811) which would have devasting effects on older...Read more >
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Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans Senior Power Celebration 2022
May 16, 2023: The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans Senior Power Celebration 2022 [caption id="attachment_1048" align="aligncenter" width="376"] IARA Board Members with award winners Representative Lakesia Collins and Beatrice Lumpkin[/caption] The I...Read more >