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Prime Timer Focus originated as an excerpt to Peer Links, containing articles of interest specifically to Prime Timers (persons with disabilities age 35 and over). Topics include aging and disability, health and wellness, retirement, relationships with our children, etc. We would love to hear from you, so if you have any articles, poetry, quick anecdotes, recipes or a few words of wisdom that you wish to share with others, please feel free to contact the Peer Support/Volunteer Coordinator. Prime Timers Focus - Spring/Summer 2009
“The PDN is very excited to bring you our fourth parenting publication, “SCHOOL YEAR CHRONICLES: A Personal Collection of Your Child’s School Year Memories”, an exciting and innovative way of capturing your child’s special childhood school moments and achievements; while providing tips for you, as parents with disabilities, on parenting issues including how to educate your child about your disability, how to breastfeed when you are a mother with a disability and facing post partum blues.”
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Ontario is launching a new $741 million diabetes strategy that aims to prevent, manage and treat diabetes care across the province. This strategy builds on internationally accepted best practices and the recommendations of the Diabetes Management Expert Panel. This panel was established by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in 2006 to provide advice on improving diabetes care in Ontario.
Many people with disabilities (both visible and invisible) continue to experience discrimination. However, women with disabilities increasingly experience discrimination based on intersecting identities (i.e., gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation and disability). As such, it is essential that health care providers improve their knowledge of disability issues, as well as their practice of providing care to women with disabilities. Doing so could make a significant difference in promoting the health of a population that has traditionally been underserved.
“In a historic decision in the “One Person, One Fare” case, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has recognized the right of these individuals to have access to a second seat when traveling by air in Canada without having to pay a second fare.”
Self esteem can be defined in many ways, but basically it is the opinion you have of yourself, or: “The experience of being capable of meeting life's challenges and being worthy of happiness."
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