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    Vol. 33, Issue 2 (Dec. 2011)

    Vol. 33 Issue 2   December 2011

    Elder

    Book Review: A Bitter Pill: How the Medical Care System Is Failing the Elderly

    “A Bitter Pill” tells of one doctor’s experience leaving behind a traditional hospital and office-based practice and developing an unconventional community-based practice providing in-home care to medically fragile patients.

    Elder

    Legal Services/Helplines Helpline Report Reveals New Data, Shares Stories of Elderly Who Have Been Helped

    The Senior Legal Helplines Annual Report for 2010 was commissioned by the Administration on Aging as a part of its Model Approaches to Statewide Legal Assistance Project.

    Elder

    Tax Lien Sales Put Low-Income, Seniors, and the Disabled at Risk of Foreclosure

    A recent report from the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), The Other Foreclosure Crisis: Property Tax Lien Sales, makes the case for state and local reforms to help seniors and other homeowners save their homes from foreclosures related to tax lien sales.

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