News Round-up – August 17, 2021

National Institutes of Health:

• The Amazing Brain: A Sharper Image of the Pyramidal Tract

Administration for Community Living:

• DOL announced an alliance with AAAED to promote people with disabilities in the national organization’s workplace equity efforts
• Webinars from National Paralysis Center
  • Volunteer and Advocacy Opportunities, Wednesday, August 18
  • Virtual Support Groups, August 26th

National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care:

• Resident’ Rights Playing Cards

Department of Veterans Affairs:

• Veteran VA Employee talks prosthetics

News sources:

• Here’s how much cash retirees really need (CNBC)
• Tackle Your Debt Before Retirement (Kiplinger)
• Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today filed a joint enforcement action against Superior Healthcare, LLC, Regenerative Medicine Institute of America, LLC d/b/a Stem Cell Institute of America, LLC, Physicians Business Solutions, LLC, Steven Peyroux, and Brent Detelich for allegedly violating the Georgia Fair Business Practices Act (FBPA) and the FTC Act by making false and misleading claims about the regenerative medicine products they offered to consumers in Georgia (Press Release)
• Lawmakers want to make it easier to have guaranteed income in retirement (CNBC)
• The SECURE Act – How it Affects Special Needs Planning and Special Needs Trusts (SNA)

Selected items from CAAR E-Clippings No. 4388 (August 9-13):

• Democrats Hope To Beef Up Medicare With Dental, Vision And Hearing Benefits
• Why Doesn’t Medicare Cover Services So Many Seniors Need?
• Hill Democrats Offer Nursing Homes More Money, But Demand Reforms In Return
• Nursing home overhaul bill would boost staffing, oversight
• Report: Georgia second-worst state in nursing home inspections
• Microbes turn back the clock as research discovers their potential to reverse aging in the brain

SSRN:

• Introduction to Fiduciaries and Trust: Ethics, Politics, Economics and Law