For more than a million Californians, the promise of expanded access to health care is at risk – because nurses and doctors can’t understand the language they are speaking.
Month: March 2013
Videos make complex ideas fun to learn for students of all ages – including students at medical school.
Tracking down Monterey County residents who become eligible for free or discounted health insurance under federal health care reform might take an army. But an army is not what the county will get.
The daily news is filled with disturbing social trends portending awful consequences around the corner, next year or for generations to come. The economy is sluggish, our safety net is unraveling, Social Security and Medicare are running out of money, and we can’t fix any of it because the government is broke and we’re buried in debt that will be passed down to our grandchildren.
It can all be very depressing.
But there is at least one social indicator that for two decades has been moving in the right direction, and it’s one that bodes well for our future: The number of births to teen-age mothers has been in a 20-year free-fall that shows no signs of abating.
When last Sunday’s Academy Awards gave its Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film to the French-language “Amour,” it was another indication that the stories of older adults are going mainstream.