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Marta Russell (December 20, 1951 – December 15, 2013) was an American writer and disability rights activist. Her book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract published in 1998 by Common Courage Press analyzes the relationship between disability, social Darwinism , and economic austerity under capitalism.
Marta Martin Carrera-Ruiz (c. 1941 – 27 February 2021) was a Cuban-American television personality. She was known for among others, El Gordo y la Flaca. [1] [2] [3]
The Administration on Aging (AoA) is an agency within the Administration for Community Living of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.AoA works to ensure that older Americans can stay independent in their communities, mostly by awarding grants to States, Native American tribal organizations, and local communities to support programs authorized by Congress in the Older ...
Marta Lourdes Tellado [3] was born in Cuba. In 1961, at the age of two, Tellado and her family left Havana for the U.S. as political refugees. [4] [5]After completing an undergraduate degree in 1981 at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Tellado went to Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, a nonprofit group. [4]
Older Americans Act of 1965: Long title: To provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the ...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), located in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIA itself is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland . The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. [ 1 ]
The 46-year-old tech entrepreneur, who is trying to reverse aging, wants Blueprint to become a bulk buying club for all things health and wellness.
The NACDA Program on Aging began in 1976 under the sponsorship of the United States Administration on Aging (AoA).At that time NACDA was seen as a novel experiment - neither the concept of a research archive devoted to aging issues nor the idea of making research data freely available to the public were well established.