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Action Needed to Close Racial Gaps in Autism Services

Physician's Weekly

To address these clinical gaps, a paper published in Pediatrics identifies four priorities for future improvement: funding, improving representation in autism research, service quality, and workforce development. Those from marginalized backgrounds often face difficulty accessing these services. Black participants: 7.7%

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. I think it can be tempting to kind of silo it to, oh, that’s just aging and independent services. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. You go back home.