{"id":2017,"date":"2008-08-05T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2008-08-05T23:21:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T23:21:39","slug":"aging_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Aging Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via The Gimp Parade<\/a>, here’s a Houston Press article discussing the challenges facing young adults with disabilities who are aging out of the pediatric care system<\/a>. While this really isn’t a new phenomenon, the piece does a good job of explaining the institutional biases that are still the norm in many states. For example, many state Medicaid programs will not provide private duty nursing services after age 21 and will only cover the costs of institutional care. Families are suing states like Texas in efforts to get the services that will keep their sons and daughters in the community and not warehoused in facilities. <\/p>\n

The article goes on to describe how some hospitals and clinics serving kids and teens with disabilities are doing more to prepare them for the transition to adult lives of independence and employment. I could think of a few Minnesota-based hospitals that might want to consider implementing similar programs. But the real changes will have to come from the bureaucrats. And speaking as a bureaucrat, I can tell you that we’re not always ones at the bleeding edge of social change. <\/p>\n

Further evidence that the world is astonishingly small: Steve Elliot, the attorney interviewed for the article, was one of my mentors when I clerked at the Minnesota Disability Law Center many years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via The Gimp Parade, here’s a Houston Press article discussing the challenges facing young adults with disabilities who are aging out of the pediatric care system. While this really isn’t a new phenomenon, the piece does a good job of explaining the institutional biases that are still the norm in many states. For example, many […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-wx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}