| Founder of Green Charter International Calls For Serious Study of ...
All over the world young people and old people want peace, happiness and do not wish for war, hunger and suffering. Yet that is exactly what is happening because the young are closing their eyes to the suffering and not seeking valid solutions beyond the old generations divisive ideologies. The world today is a mess if you care to open your eyes you cannot miss it. Pollution, looming mass starvation due to bio fuel production, nuclear contamination from depleted uranium use in wars in Yugoslavia, Iraq not to mention the deaths and suffering of millions in these places as well as Sudan and other areas all caused by unbridled greed and thirst for power. What are you doing about it? Drinking away the problems, shooting up with drugs, listening to walkman or ipod music non-stop or partying like there is no tomorrow? No, there are millions of young people who are aware of these problems and care about them, but see no solution in the current systems.
Supreme Court Decision On Home Health Care Workers 'Makes No Sense ...
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that federal minimum wage and overtime laws do not apply to home care workers "makes no sense for a nation of aging baby boomers," a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial states. "For the workers themselves, this is a survival issue," but "there's a wider constituency for getting home care workers the pay they deserve and, in turn, being able to attract qualified staff to these jobs" -- the increased number of elderly U.S. residents who seek their care, according to the editorial. The editorial states, "Without adequate home services, these elderly face lives in costly institutional settings."
Federal labor laws "need to be broadened to cover home workers," a move that could require congressional action or revision of Department of Labor regulations, the editorial states.
Thousands of elderly are abused, says study
Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are being abused in their own homes or in privately run residential homes, according to a study published today. Although the report indicated the rates of serious physical abuse and injury are relatively low, there is widespread evidence of bullying, neglect and low-level abuse at the hands of care workers. The report on abuse was conducted by researchers from the King’s Institute of Gerontology in London who have spent two years collecting data on abuse in care homes. It was funded by Comic Relief and supported by the Department of Health. The study claims that the elderly suffer from psychological, physical and sexual abuse, often at the hands of their own relatives. Adults are not offered the same protection from abuse under the law as children.
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