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Budget Bytes - My stomach is full, and my wallet is too. Cook Once, Eat for the Week. By Karen Ansel, R.D. 1 of 6 Roast Chicken with Creamy Polenta and Mushroom Ragout Roast Chicken Prep time: 10 minutes Cooking time: 2 hours 10 minutes (plus 15 minutes resting time) 7 lb roasting chicken 1/2 tsp Kosher salt 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/4 tsp ground black pepper 1/2 lemon, quartered 4 cloves garlic, peeled and split in half 1. 2. 3.
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25 Easy Breakfast Hacks To Make Your Morning Brighter. 50 Vegan Sandwiches. Every so often the Times has a huge food section article with like, 101 ideas for salads or 101 ideas for grilling.
My Dad usually saves the print version from his work and brings it home for me, where I proceed to drool over the unlimited possibilities, or at least the vegetarian ones. (Btw, how great is my Dad? He is in Egypt right now covering the protests! Crazy, right?) The idea is, relatively simple combos that might be a bit unusual or sort of a cheater recipe for something usually prepared in a more complex way.
In my opinion, us vegans need something like this.
Tequila Recipes at Epicurious. Fluff sandwich. What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? What should you eat right now? Breakfast. Healthy eating diet. Better information. Better health. Dinner under 10 - iVillage.
Crusty Bread. Jan. 1, 2015: Just released.
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It's Megan from Megan's Munchies. Since Zesty tends to be a meat loving guy, I decided his blog needed a little extra sweetness. Browsing through the recipes on the Betty Crocker website, I found the perfect recipe to do the trick. Who can't resist graham crackers, melted chocolate, and warm gooey marshmallows? This recipe requires very few ingredients and is easy to make. Warm Toasted Marshmallow S'more Bars Ingredients: 1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix1 cup graham cracker crumbs1 cup butter or margarine, melted3 cups milk chocolate chips (18 oz)41/2 cups miniature marshmallows Directions.
- StumbleUpon. Kitchen Helpers - StumbleUpon. I found these helpful charts last week and just had to share!
Both of these beauties are from Chasing Delicious (aka one of the most fab foodie blogs out there)! Aren't they faaaaabulous?! Buy them here. (Note: There are lots of little charts like this online, but these are my favorites). I love tea, but I'm no expert. Tomato and Bread Bowl 'Soupetizers'. MNN - Mother Nature Network - StumbleUpon. Robin shared some wonderful choices for healthier organic candy for Halloween last week.
It made me long for candy myself! I thought I'd share 12 recipes for homemade candies that everyone can enjoy. Some of these recipes are candy bars, some are great to serve at parties, and others make perfect additions to lunch pails. Better yet, the recipes can be surprisingly simple and healthy! The following recipes use unrefined sweeteners and high quality ingredients. 3. 4. 5. 6. Watermelonade Recipe at Epicurious.com - StumbleUpon. Photo by Roland Bello yield Makes 1 gallon (serves 16) active time 30 min total time 30 min You would be hard-pressed to find something more refreshing than watermelon.
This cooler is easy to make, beautiful to behold, and not too sweet. Garnish: lemon slices; mint sprigs.
Almost-Famous Bloomin' Onion Recipe : Food Network Kitchens. Directions For the Dip:For the Onion: See how to slice a Bloomin' Onion Combine all of the dip ingredients in a bowl, cover and refrigerate.
Slice the onion (see below). Whisk the flour, cayenne, paprika, thyme, oregano, cumin and 1/2 teaspoon black pepper in a bowl. Place the onion in a separate bowl, cut-side up, and pour all of the flour mixture on top. Using a slotted spoon, fully submerge the onion in the egg mixture (spoon on top, if necessary). Heat the oil in a large deep pot over medium-high heat until a deep-fry thermometer registers 400 degrees. How to Slice a Bloomin' Onion.
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has reiterated his country's determination to prevent Syria's weapons falling into the hands of Lebanese terrorist organisation Hizbollah.
Major General Wissam al-Hassan was a marked man years before he was assassinated by a massive car bomb in Beirut last Friday.
In Lebanon, military and security services are split by allegiances to different parties and ethnic groups. Al-Hassan's loyalties were to the anti-Syrian March 14 coalition and the Hariri clan.
The US envoy to the Middle East negotiated a secret peace deal between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to documents seen by Yedioth Ahronoth.
The ongoing uprising in Syria is having profound effects on the Druze community living on both sides of the Israel-Syria border.
As the Assad government is rapidly losing control and chaos descends on the country, many Druze citizens living in the Golan Heights have requested Israeli citizenship.
As Bashar al-Assad fights for his survival, a new threat to Israel is crystallising across its northern borders.
What began in Syria as a limited but genuine people's uprising against a dictatorship has become contaminated with Saudi-funded foreign mujahideen who are driven, among other things, by an intense hostility toward non-Muslims - and an implacable hatred of Jews and Israel.
An Iranian acknowledgment that its troops are active in Syria alongside President Bashar al-Assad's security forces has increased tension in the region as American, British and other Western navies carry out joint exercises in the Persian Gulf.
Concern is growing within Israeli and Western intelligence services over the role of the radical Muslim organisations connected to the Muslim Brotherhood in leading the armed uprising in Syria.
There is evidence to suggest that IHH, the Islamic charity that helped organise the 2010 flotilla to Gaza, has been involved in gun-running to Syria on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Free Syrian Army commanders have told The Times that a boat containing weapons that docked in Syria this week was registered to members of the IHH, which has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi said this week that had never heard of an Israeli strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor.
Mr Ashkenazi, who spoke in reaction to a report in the New Yorker claiming that Israel was behind the attack on September 5, 2007, was the head of the IDF at the time.
Saeed Jalili, the mild-mannered secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and special adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, undertook a whirlwind visit of Syria and Lebanon two weeks ago.


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Venard Campbell (third from left), Pre-Hospital Coordinator at St.Clair Hospital, accepts a $1,000 grant from Joseph King, (second from left) President of the Mt. Lebanon Community Endowment to support the Hospital's Courtesy Van Transportation Program.
The program, funded entirely with generous donations from the community, shuttles individuals who do not have access to transportation to their medical appointments. Pictured with Venard and Joseph and one of the Foundation-sponsored Courtesy vans are, left to right: Audrey Bode, Executive Director of the Endowment; Mike Blehar, a Board Member of the Endowment; Rick Lerach, Vice President of the Endowment, and Kristen Beattie, Manager, Organizational Advancement, St. Clair Hospital Foundation.
Pink Out Champions!
Local organizations and schools rally to join the fight against Breast Cancer and support the St. Clair Hospital Breast Care Center.
It what has quickly become an October tradition, eight area school districts teamed with the St. Clair Hospital Foundation to raise funds for the Hospital's Breast Care Centers during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Students at Bethel Park, Chartiers Valley, Keystone Oaks, Mt. Lebanon, Montour, Peters Township, South Park and Upper St. Clair sold signature St. Clair pink bandannas at "Pink Out" football games, bake sales and throughout their respective districts, raising a combined $5,000 to support St. Clair Hospital's Breast Care centers. The centers offer education, early detection, 3D mammography, treatment and surgical services. The funds support charitable programs and services for women in our community, including free mammograms for the uninsured. Each school was presented with a Pink Out Champions plaque as a thank you for the students' generosity and hard work.
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Brews Brothers raised over $2,000 at its second annual Oktoberfest event to support the Breast Care Center. This two-day event included local Oktoberfest brews and food trucks.
Montour School District
Members of Montour High School's Cure Finders sold 1,000 pink bandannas during their "Pink Out Week" at various Montour schools and at Montour's home football game against Blackhawk in October. The Cure Finders raised $1,000 to support the St. Clair Hospital Breast Care Center. Members Nick Yanosick, Gabi Totino, and Kellie O'Toole, and Alex Yanosick presented a check to St. Clair Hospital in front of the student body.
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Students from Mt. Lebanon High School raised $1,500 during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Bandanas were sold at the school and during their "Pink Out" football game in October. Students received a thank you plaque from St. Clair Hospital Foundation's Director of Annual Giving and Stewardship Matt Hiser. Mt. Lebanon students pictured left to right are: Sarah Walters; Annie McGonigle; Corrine Repcheck; Marigrace Moses; Fabi Shipley.
South Park
South Park High School students sold over 500 bandanas during their "Pink Out" activities. Students of the Interact Club at South Park led the effort and raised $550 to support St. Clair Hospital's Breast Care Center. South Park students Molly Saylor, Katie Schultz, and Alexia Cardigis presented a check to Kristen Beattie of St. Clair Hospital Foundation during their Interact Club meeting in November.
Keystone Oaks
Keystone Oaks students sold over 500 bandanas during their "Pink Out" activities in October. Members of Student Senate led the effort and raised $500 to support St. Clair Hospital's Breast Care Center. Student Senate members presented a check to St. Clair Hospital during their meeting in November.


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The Amarillo ART Institute will begin its second series of summer classes for adults and children in July and August.
Classes and workshops for both children and adults will continue into the fall, with after-school and evening classes.
Teens older than 16 can participate in adult classes.
A full schedule of classes is available at the Panhandle Art Center, 5701 Plains Blvd., Suite 135.
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Memory assessments set Saturday
The Alzheimer's Association will provide free memory assessments from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the offices of Dr. Eric Cox, 1600 S. Coulter St., Suite 102.
Appointments are not required for the screenings. For more information, call 331-3290.
Dalhart fund-raiser set Saturday
A Dalhart Benefit Poker Run for the Senior Citizens Center will begin with registration at noon Saturday at Lake Pavilion. The first bike will be out at 1 p.m., the last will be out at 2 p.m., with the last in at 4:30 p.m.
There will be a 50-50 drawing and door prizes, and a catered dinner will be served at 5 p.m. The winning poker hand will receive a prize of $500, and the worst poker hand will receive a prize of $50.
Cost to participate is $25 per packet, which includes a meal and three poker hands. Additional meal tickets will be available. The event is sponsored by First State Bank and H&R Construction in Dalhart.
For more information, contact George Odom at 249-5513, James McGlellan at 244-5148 or Ronnie Hanbury at 244-5550.
BEEFaTHON scheduled Sunday
The Panhandle Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society will present the 34th annual Multiple Sclerosis BEEFaTHON from noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Northwest Texas Pavilion Auditorium.
The auction will be televised on KFDA NewsChannel 10 and generates approximately $60,000 to benefit the society.
Among the items to be auctioned are a U.S. Congressional cookbook autographed by U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, artwork, a Nikon digital camera, the opportunity to be a KGNC Morning Show disc jockey for an hour, and lifetime vaccinations and yearly exams for a pet.
There will be an open house to preview items up for auction from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Multiple Sclerosis office, 6222 Canyon Drive.
For more information, or to register or form a team, contact Jeri Farris at 468-8005.
Benefit poker run Saturday
The employees of the Potter County Sheriff's Office will sponsor a benefit Poker Run on Saturday with registration beginning at 10 a.m. at the Blue Gator Bar & Grill, 2903 W. Sixth Ave.
The event will begin and end at the Blue Gator Bar & Grill with the first bike out at 11 a.m. Cost to participate is $10 per hand. There will be food and drink specials, and door prizes will be given away through the day.
Proceeds of the run will benefit a retired Potter County Sheriff's Office employee with 25 years of service who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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Elton John to Perform in Billings
Elton John is returning to Billings' Rimrock Auto Arena this October for "The Final Curtain" tour.
Elton John is returning to Billings' Rimrock Auto Arena this October for "The Final Curtain" tour.
Two generations of British singer-songwriters joined forces at the 2013 Grammy Awardswhen Elton John teamed up with Song of the Year nominee Ed Sheeran for an excellent rendition of 'The A Team.'
A movie is in development right now called "Rocketman" about the life of legendary songwriter and performer Elton John. When asked by the Los Angeles Times who he would like to see play him Elton pointed to Justin Timberlake. Saying that " played me before in a video . . . and was superb." Check out the music video for "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" Mr. John is referring to. The song is beautiful and the video is pretty sweet as well. Check it out.
Elton John put on a show as host of ÔSaturday Night LiveÕ this weekend, marking only his second appearance on the long running sketch comedy show.
In his opening monologue, John proclaimed Òthe bitch is backÓ before launching into a series of jokes about his new baby boy, whom John said was born with Òten fingers, ten toes, and $400 million dollars.Ó John also joked about Lady Gaga being his sonÕs (named Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John) godmother.
As for the actual sketches, many seemed to rely on jokes about JohnÕs British roots, his flamboyant stage persona and his sexuality, including one sketch titled ÔThe Old West,Õ in which John played, well, a flamboyant cowboy. (Really, can you blame the writers? WeÕre still trying to figure out why John hosted in the first place.)


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Saberu as Mat said if you do the TEFL you will be as qualified or more qualified than the many folks who grind out the summer camps and the weekend/late night language school jobs. Most of these places are so desperate I am sure they would take you on even if your stay will be breif. As far as the morals of it go, these places for the most part are just an added practice opportunity for the kids above and beyond their normal learning so even if you are only so-so the kids still should get a bit of speaking practice out of it. Do try do the TEFL though because it won't make you a superstar but it will get you started on the right foot.
Not sure if you ar frankaphone/bilingual or not coming from Montreal but if so please avoid teaching them "dis, dat an dee udder ting"! They already know how to murder pronunciation.


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MADISON, Wis. -- No one will ever mistake the pace of Wisconsin's basketball team for Houston's famed Phi Slama Jama bunch of the 1980s or UNLV's run-and-gun style under Tark the Shark in the early 1990s. In fact, the Badgers' plodding play has represented the complete antithesis of such explosive offenses for years. But before you hit the snooze button on another season of Wisconsin hoops, consider that the 2013-14 version may be the quickest Badgers team in quite some time -- out of necessity and sheer depth in the backcourt. To hear players tell it, they expect such a change. It may not exactly force scoreboard operators into a lather, but for a team that traditionally ranks near the bottom nationally in possessions per game, it is something. "If we have it, why not use it?" Badgers point guard Traevon Jackson said during the team's annual preseason media day on Friday afternoon. "It can help improve our team." Wisconsin returns Jackson and guard Ben Brust, who combined to start 64 games last season in the backcourt. Reserves George Marshall and Zak Showalter also are back. Couple that with the addition of freshman guards Bronson Koenig, Jordan Hill and Riley Dearring, as well as the return of standout guard Josh Gasser from an ACL injury, and the Badgers are as deep in the backcourt as they have been in years. "You think 12 guards is a lot?" Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan deadpanned. "It just panned out this way. It keeps a very high competitive level in the backcourt and all our drills and all our possessions." Gasser's return in particular has been one of the most discussed storylines of the past year. Last season, Gasser was prepared to take over as Wisconsin's starting point guard until he suffered a torn ACL in his left knee on Oct. 27 -- just days before the Badgers' season began. Instead, Jackson and Marshall split duties at point guard, gaining valuable experience while Gasser recovered. Gasser, Brust, Marshall and Jackson have played in a combined 243 games with 136 starts. And that type of experience -- coupled with the relative lack of experience in the frontcourt -- could lead Ryan to play with a three-guard lineup this season, which could in turn create more opportunities to run the floor. "I think it can because you get a rebound or a turnover, you don't have to necessarily look for one guy to get out and go," Gasser said. "If we have two or three or four guards out there, you can get it and whoever's got it can go and run the offense. "Different guys can be in different spots on the floor. I don't think it has to be as structured that way. I think that's definitely going to be beneficial for our team." Wisconsin has ranked among the bottom 25 Division I teams in possessions per game in each of the past five seasons. Four times during that span, the Badgers have been ranked in the bottom 10, and two years ago, they were last among 344 D-I programs. It is worth noting that Wisconsin increased its possessions by more than three per game last season to 62.3, and that was with a big frontcourt that featured Jared Berggren, Mike Bruesewitz and Ryan Evans -- each of whom has since used up their eligibility. "Obviously there's going to be a smaller lineup at times than there was with Jared, Mike and Ryan," Badgers center Frank Kaminsky said. "They were great players. But they weren't the best-running offensive players. I feel like we've got a lot of opportunity to get up and down the court this year." Of course, the speed at which Wisconsin plays could depend heavily on how quickly the Badgers' six freshmen -- Koenig, Hill, Dearring, Nigel Hayes, Vitto Brown and Aaron Moesch -- acclimate to Ryan's system. Ryan is meticulous in the way he preaches defense, handling block-to-block situations or hedging ballscreens a particular way. And without first understanding those defensive principles, players won't be given many chances to contribute on offense. Each freshman saw first-hand what a game atmosphere resembled when Wisconsin traveled to Canada for a five-game, eight-day trip in August. "We got to see how coach Ryan is during games, what we can expect," said Hayes, a 6-foot-7, 250-pound forward. "We got to watch the upperclassmen when we weren't playing, how they react to certain situations. I think it was a great learning experience for us." Because of the departures of Berggren, Bruesewitz and Evans, there are minutes to be had in the frontcourt -- each averaged at least 28 minutes per game last season. Sophomore forward Sam Dekker (9.6 points per game last season as the sixth man) is poised to be the Badgers' leading scorer, while the 6-11 Kaminsky should be UW's starting center. Dekker led the Badgers in scoring three times on the team's Canadian trip and averaged 19.4 points per game, while Kaminsky followed at 15.0 points per game. Hayes and redshirt junior forward Duje Dukan appear to have the inside track on backup minutes at the "4" spot, while Brown and redshirt senior Zach Bohannon also are in the mix. Ryan, like many coaches at this time of year, is eager to see how all the pieces will fall in place -- and just how, exactly, this team will play when Wisconsin opens the regular season against St. John's on Nov. 8. "Yeah, there's a lot of question marks," Ryan said. "Every time we do a drill, we put a freshman with an upperclassman and they help them through the drills, especially partner drills. And they've worked pretty well together. Pretty spirited group. "Will youth be served or will the youth get served? I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. But it's fun working with guys who are listening and trying to grasp what we're teaching. 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HMAWBI Township — A two-day conference of Buddhist monks concluded on Friday without any mention of a proposal by nationalist monk U Wirathu to lobby for a law that would put restrictions on Buddhist-Muslim marriages.
Instead, the organizers called for peace and communal harmony in Burma and denounced the proposal.
"To accept or not to accept the so-called restrictions on interfaith marriage will be decided in accordance with human rights [standards]. Anybody can marry at their own will," said U Dhammapiya, a senior monk and a spokesman for the convention.
"I will not accept someone forcing others to convert to their religion. If it violates human rights, we cannot agree to it," he said, adding that the organizers had not been involved in drafting the law.
U Wirathu, a Mandalay-based monk who leads the controversial 969 nationalist campaign, has produced a 15-page draft law that would require any Buddhist woman seeking to marry a Muslim man to first gain permission from her parents and local government officials.
The draft law, which he had been circulated at the convention and among journalists, would also require any Muslim man who marries a Buddhist woman to convert to Buddhism. Those who do not follow these rules could face up to 10 years in prison and have their property confiscated, according to the draft.
U Wirathu had vigorously defended the draft law on Thursday at a press conference, sitting beside U Dhammapiya and Ashin Saekeinda, the abbot of a monastery in Hmawbi Township, located just outside Rangoon, where the convention was held.
But on Friday afternoon, Ashin Saekeinda said he did not know who had circulated the draft law among participants and journalists, adding that it did not represent the position of the monks' convention.
"I don't know who delivered [the draft law]. I managed the meeting personally. I organized the meeting democratically and allowed anyone to participate," the abbot said.
"I said that only [joint] announcements made during our meeting are official. Others issues don't have anything to do with our meeting," he added.
On Monday, eight Rangoon-based women rights' groups issued a joint statement condemning U Wirathu's proposed draft law, which he had claimed would "protect Buddhist women's freedom."
The organizations included the Karen Women's Action Group, the 88 Generation Students Women Network, and the Triangle Women Support Group.
"Buddhist women are the target of this draft law, and we know nothing about it all. The ones who drafted the bill are monks. That means it doesn't represent women," said Zin Mar Aung, a founder of the Rainfall Gender Studies Group and a well-known women's rights activist.
At the conclusion of the convention on Friday, its 227 participants issued a statement regarding the ongoing inter-communal tensions.
"We promote peaceful coexistence with all those who are living in the country," the statement said, adding that the convention had identified seven areas of focus, which included "solving conflict by means of Buddhist way," "promoting studies that lead to peace-building" and "law and order enforcement for peaceful coexistence."
"We object to any action, false accusation or statement against Buddhism which are detrimental to Buddhism and the dignity of Buddhist monks," the statement noted.
Ashin Saekeinda said, "These points were announced on behalf of all the monks in the country. It is an endeavor to educate the monks about peace, should they not understand it before. It is a discussion for the peaceful co-existence between religions."
The abbot went on to state that the symbolic number 969, which is supposed to represent the tenets of Buddhist philosophy and teaching, is being abused by some during the volatile democratic transition period in Burma.
"Presently, the morale of those who are under 35 or 40 [year of age] is ruined and they've turned away from peace. As they are morally ruined, we try to guide them by means of sermons. Here, the number 969 exploited for evil purposes by some," Ashin Saekeinda said.
U Wirtahu leads the nationalist 969 movement, which has encouraged Buddhist communities across Burma to shun Muslim-owned businesses and support Buddhist-owned shops instead.
His campaign has been accused of inflaming growing sectarian tensions between Burma's Buddhists and Muslims, who are estimated to make up some 5 percent of the country's total population.
Violence between Buddhists and Muslim communities broke out in Arakan State, western Burma, in June last year. The unrest has since spread to dozens of towns in other parts of the country. Hundreds of people have been killed and more than 150,000 people — mostly Muslims — have been forced to flee their homes.
Nationalist Buddhist monks have been accused of openly supporting the violence by calling for the removal Muslims from towns and villages in order to establish Buddhist dominance. In some cases, monks were reportedly observed participating in and organizing the street violence.
This is a slap on fake monk Wirathu. He is acting like he is a representative whole Burma Monks Committee. No doubt he had abused the 969 buddisht way of teaching. But here I have doubt that why the Dhammapiya or Ashin Saekeinda fall short of condemning this low grade illiterate Wirathu. Why the Burmese authorities are still not taking any action against the perpetrators?
Can Wirathu answer to the women power of Burma. Hats off to the
Yup, Wirathu took advantage of the fact that the senior monks were sitting near him to give that statement he did, making the media think thje senior monk supported him
Buddhist philosophy is tolerance and peaceful practice of mindfulness. It may not put the blame to perpetrator or human right abuser. It will learn from the particular mistake, take the lesson out of it; and find the root cause of misunderstanding. Then mindfulness of what is happening in the surrounding and studying of own mind to purify the insight. It believes in Karma and its complicated ways of Sansara. The only way to be free from the dreadful Sansara is to study the mind of oneself and others, tolerate to whatever happened, and establishment of peaceful co-existence in this small world.
May all being free from suffering.
Hats off to the women rights groups and women activist of Burma.
My comment is probably irrelevant but I do find it a bit strange to see all those colourful flowers surrounding the monks. When I was growing up in Burma during the 50's and the 60's I always thought Buddhist monks were very ascetic, live and meditate austerely in their "phongyi kyaungs" (monasteries) and avoid getting involved in mundane "flowery" issues like weddings. I thought Buddhism was the only religion that transcends worldly needs, desires and politics. Things have changed a lot in "Myanmar". Oh well, all religions now serve some sort of social or political goals and Buddhism seems no longer any different.
Well..I am sure monks did not choose those colorful vases, but the event organizers did. It might probably be a good practice to not look at things through a Rohingya-reading glasses all the time. I do reserve sympathy for them and learning about their sufferings really pinches my heart. However, every time I read a snipe by you against monks who stand apart from Wirathu, it really makes me wonder if all of the rohingya are like you.
You're right. These flowers look more like at a Communist Party event in China than in a wretched Rohingya hut. Were the organisers funded indirectly by rich Chinese businessmen? Just asking! You should check the new Facebook page of the Chinese embassy in "Myanmar" where you can see lots of pictures of Buddhist monks. Peking is playing the "Buddhist card" to soften up the anti-Chinese sentiment in Burma. Wirathu is just a stooge. He doesn't know that he is being used. All this anti-Rohingya anti-Muslim stuff might be just a diversionary tactic that China is using so that people accept the Chinese pipeline, the copper mine, the dams, the railway line, etc. Read Sun Tzu if you want to know more about Chinese strategy. I call it the 2Y-strategy (Yuan and Y-chromosome). Be careful of Peking's sinister plans. Burma is still under Chinese yoke. Ask Than Shwe or Tay Za, if you don't believe me.
By the way, half of my ancestors are from Arakan but I don't give a damn what tribe they belong to or whether they are descended from Kanraza-gyi (Abhiraza's older son) or Kanraza-nge! Enough of this primitive tribalism in Burma. If people continue with that kind of nonsense, the Chinese sugar daddies will soon take over from their naval base at Kyaukphru!
The problem is that one should never take one monk to judge all monks. There has always been a number of monks that are involved in things that have nothing to do with their original way of life. Unfortunately these monks do not realise that they blemish Buddhism. And that their actions are immediately taken up (also by international press agencies, little they understand) to put Buddhism down as ll other religions are already bankruot in their so-called tolerance and benevolence. Hence I urge all Buddhists to join hands and EDUCATE the people so they understand true Buddhism, which actions will protect Buddhism.
In the time of the dictatorship monks were reluctant to speak. Now also senior monks are still reluctant to speak. Why?!
I hope Irrawaddy posted this article in Burmese version as well.
Buddhist population is far larger than a combination of Christian, Muslim, Hindu and others. Why do some Buddhist monks have insecure feeling? Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships are already Muslim townships because of military dictatorship's failure from securing the border. Do not blame the Bengali people for their migration into Burma but blame the useless military government.
It was not military dictatorship failure that Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships are already Muslim majority townships. They were Muslim majority townships because they have been living there for 1000 years contrary to the propaganda of illegal immigration. Arakan was a part of Bengal region for a long long time. Whatever happened in Bengal religious wise (changes), it happened in Arakan too. You can find sources of reputation to put pieces of the history of Arakan.
@Amanda Swe
You confuse quality with quantity. The contents of your high production of unsubstantial comments appear like shallow propaganda, but obviously disclose a mission you eagerly want to fulfill: For the "Rohingya" and their (Islamic & NGO-) supporters ??
Yeah! Right. If your statement were true, Buthidaung and Maungdaw would have Bengali names. This is the reason we can clearly say that these two townships were Rakhine soil and illegal immigrant Bengali people occupy today. .
The districts of Chittagong and Cox's Bazar in current Bangladesh (and old Bengal) were part of Rakhine kingdom. Does Chittagong sound vaguely familiar? It roughly means "edge of army camp" in Rakhine/Myanmar.
AmandaSwe, I just wonder at your level of knowledge on Rakhine. Who taught you that Arakan was under Bengal, and that too for 1000 years? Even the Chittagong and Cox's Bazar areas of Bengal was under Burmese control
till the British came. Chittagong was lost to the Mughal only in 1666.
After 1666, the Arakanese army retreated towards Cox's Bazar and
towards the Chittagong Hill Tracts where they settled, and their
successive generations could be seen there even today. The Buddhist kings of Arakan took Muslim names when the Muslim traders and the faraway Mughal kings wielded their power across South Asia. But in actuality they never come to Arakan, even to Chittagong until 1666. If the Arakanese kings were Muslims, as the rohingya charlatans demand, where are the burial
grounds of those 'Muslim' kings? If you visit Muslim countries you'll
always see big burial places of ancient Muslim kings. there are none in
Arakan, because those kings were purely Buddhists. Today millions of
Muslims take up names like Maung Nu, Ne Win, Sanda Lin, though they are
Burmese Buddhists. Have these Buddhist names changed them into
Buddhists, after all? I don't know how closely touched you are with
Arakan or Rakhine, both physically and also through your studies, but
your knowledge shows you know very little about the land and its
history, let alone its people. Please do more studies before making any
comments on Arakan. In the 15th and 16th century India, Muslim rulers resorted to excessive force for converting the Hindus and Buddhists of India to Islam. Please check Indian history of those centuries. You can easily come across the names of those Muslim kings. And as a small kingdom in the Bay, Arakanese kings used their brain and brawn to tackle the invasion of the alien religion.
Let us stop male chauvinism which is so characteristic of Asian Nations and Myanmar is not exempt from it. I am glad Buddhist monks realized this on time that it is not their place to exert any kinds of religious influence on social issues. Any rule or law that is not supported by women is not going to last and will face an eventual failure. The 969 organization should concentrate on teaching the basics of Buddhism rather than going around bashing Buddhist women who marry Muslim men and finally convert to Islam. Converting to other religions is a reflection of failure of the Buddhist leaders in their approach on teaching Buddhism.
All those people criticizing the article at http://www.irrawaddy.com/archives/37391 must be relieved and can now relax.
Wirathu is backed by the cronies in power. That is why no senior monks try to remove him.
I am very happy with the outcome announcement of the monks' convention. They should even add a rule to strip any monks complicated physically in this violences. Religion and state should be separated.
Now, we will need a civil law to protect women from being married by muslim men and convert them and the children to muslim religion. They are just following their Sharia law. Muslim men can marry up to 4 wives at one time (they can divorce one and replace to have 4 at anytime). Their population grows like rabbits (look at illegal Bengalis population in Arakan). And if we follow democratic rules, we have to respect the vote of the majority. I don't want our law replaced by sharia. I want to protect the future freedom of our country from Sharia.
I am not against muslim in general. I have many muslim friends. I am against the salafist muslim who are financed by OIC and more and more vocal now around the world. They even intimidate the moderate muslim to become radical, specially the youngs and the poor. I am afraid, we are heading to not the third world war but the global religious war, all against muslim.
I believe this is the only and first ever "balance statement" in the last horrible one year. I personally appreciate the peace initiative by respected Buddhist Monks. It is good to know the true colour of Buddhism, which promotes peace and harmony. For the last one year, the fake and poisoned minds dominated the attacks & instigation and brought a lot of bad name not only to our beloved country, but also to Buddhism. The attacks also disturbed so called "democratic honeymoon" of President Then Sein Government and the aspiring future President DASSK. We need to remember that Burmese are majority and no need to feel insecurity about less than a million poor people in the western border. Burmese Muslims around the country also contribution the country's economic development but not challenging any power. Development of Rakhine state and social inclusion of all people in the state will bring peace and harmony ( win-win situation) to the country. Rakhine state should also benefit from mega projects ( such as Shwe gas and deep sea port in Sittwe) so that the state will come out from the second poorest region in Burma. We also need to be mindful of the fact that the western border was safest in terms of insurgency and there were hardly any casualty of Burmese military in the last 50 years. Indeed Rakhine state was very peaceful but poor. Buddhist and Muslims live their own way, a bit isolated, but not in that bad relation portrayed by recent reports. There were poor communication and integration due to the bad legacy of previous Government. The best motto today should be " Chit Za go Shay Zay, Mone za go Tow Zay " meaning " Lengthen the Love String and Shorten the Hate string". We are living in a globalization and maintaining the sovereignty of the country will not rely on the military might or the gang fights. The meaningful sovereignty can be maintained through economic development, good governance, robust law and order, and supremacy on since and technology.
I like your optimistic and peaceful view. What happen when local adminstrative body are voted democratically with majority muslim in those town? Then they put the Sharia law on locals? I mean not on Arakan as whole "yet".
I want to live in peace and respect the freedom between us. I don't want anyone imposing their religious law on other. I will not be able to write this blog if there is Sahria rule. If you don't believe in Koran, you will become infidel, you are worthless. If you say bad about Allah, you are dead. If you say bad about Buddha, people may not like it but you be still alive !
Remember, we have to protect the freedom for the future from now. One day we dont want to wake up and realise it's too late.
Yes, this article must be posted in Burmese version.
Wirathu is a fake monk, a junk. He hailed from Kyaukse, and seems he had some personal grudge against Muslims in his native town or village. The Muslims in Kyaukse are peaceful citizens all along. I know that.because I also hail from Kyaukse. He was a trouble maker since his Primary School days, and carried that on at Min-kone Monastery in the last decade or so.
He is probably now closely associated with the political group who think this is the only way they can win popularity of their evil political ideas.
Wirathu and his associates should be discommunicated for good, and the government should bar him from distributing and preaching his evil ideas. It is anti-Buddhist and anti man-kind.
These admirable monks are trying to protect buddhist women.It must be
earlier than this.Our Government should
cooperate with the monks.Those who try to against and criticize this plan are not buddhists I suppose.I don't even know
Zin Mar Aung so that how can she
represents women all over the country.
I vote "YES" on Muslim-Buddhists Marriage Law. I have the following reasons:
1) ISLAM is the fastest growing religion by Births.
2) We should see England as an examples. After 30 years, for instance, some English neighborhoods turn into Muslim Community and English became minority in their own town.
3) We must study and learn inter Marriage Laws from Malaysia and Singapore. They have great examples and no one can force that easily).
4) As a native Karen, living in Karen State, we have documented spread of ISLAM throughout our state. We are very tolerance people but we don't protect that kind of building new Mosques. Internet has open our eyes and we can see that Building Churches in Indonesia are not very easy and we concluded that ISLAM is not very tolerance religion. As a Karen, I want to know how Burma will change in 30 years later. I am 30 years old and how Karen and neighboring state like Mon State looks like in 30 years later.
5) We should not forget that Burma let foreigners in for the first time in 60 years. We knew that Missionaries from Christian and Islam are spreading throughout our villages. We are surrounded by India, China and Bangladesh. Do NOT FORGET THAT!!!
6) European and Americans journalists should stop blaming on Burmese Buddhists. I would suggest before western journalists should look into European society whether Muslims embrace Multiculturalism or not.
7) We must also study and learn from Japanese immigration system. ( Japan should be our example. Not Europe and American).
8) We must stop building new Mosques in Burma. ( Again, my argument is that ISLAM is political ideology: and you can't deny that). Western Countries have serious problems but they don't want to ADMIT YET.
9) We have estimate guess for Muslims populations in Myanmar. This is not 5% as media claims. When is the last time Burma collects census?)
10) Think for next 30 years. Populations matter. Religion matters. We want to build peaceful society. British already brought mass immigration in Colonial time. Understand Modern day colonial ways.
11) As a Burmese-Karen Buddhists, I want to see my country, my state and my hometown live peacefully. The only way to do is we must implement Muslim-Buddhists Marriage Law for future generations. ( By the way, how many Muslims men convert to Buddhism when they marry to native girls?)
12) It is very amusing to hear Western Journalists criticize 969 for promoting "SHOP Buddhist Business Model". In France, Muslims have their separate swimming pool hour, Menus, and "Harla" ). This ideology has been decades. Are you forget about that? ISLAM must change this system. Frankly, this is not acceptable ideology for Harmonic Society. Christians have no problems.
I hope that So-Called Educated Burmese will understand how people are facing day to day activities in State like Karen State. My question to all is: Yes, you can easily says " If anyone convert to other religion, feel free. "
Then, How about children in our state? They don't know. How can you let other religion easily convert by proving food and shelters? Don't we have any PRIDES? Are we just taking easy money from Islamic Countries?
My personal view on ISLAM:
( I have nothing against Burmese Muslims but we are moving toward Democratize Reform and as a Buddhist, we don't believe that ISLAM is the religion of Peace. We have different views on that. We have seen ISLAM as political ideology and doesn't match with Democratic society).
Remember. Tolerance go both ways. Don't forget what is happening in Southern Thailand in 21 century.
Win Oo ( From Myanmar)
Win Oo wrote; 4) As a native Karen, living in Karen State, we have documented spread of ISLAM throughout our state. We are very tolerance people but we don't protect that kind of building new Mosques. Internet has open our eyes and we can see that Building Churches in Indonesia are not very easy and we concluded that ISLAM is not very tolerance religion. As a Karen, I want to know how Burma will change in 30 years later. I am 30 years old and how Karen and neighboring state like Mon State looks like in 30 years later.
Hi win Oo
Your karen leaders never mention that Karen has a problem with local Muslim.
What and where is your reference for your above claim. What is your Karen name and where did you study and what level you have achieved in Burma. Could you pinpoint the location or place or areas where local Muslim are trying to suppress the Karen well-being.
The world only knows that Karen are and were killed by bama military thugs, particularly fox than shwe for 60 years. Do you want to say that local Muslim were killed by Karen as well ?
Win Oo,
No wonder. I met many Karen Muslims. When I asked them how they became Muslims, they told me that the Karen women got married with Muslim men. Bengali people who reside in refugee camps or the Muslims who live near the Thai-Burma border area are easily extending their faith through marriage. Karen people cannot be wiped out by the Burmese military assault but they can be swallowed by some Muslim men through marriage.
Dear Win Oo,
Your comment is one of the highly qualified and argumentative strongest which I have read in The Irrawaddy and DVB. Congratulations !
Did you know history of Thailand,Southern part previously owned by Malay king and during independent English put it Thailand.
It is not your business about southern part of Thailand. It must be discussed by Thai and Malay. We don't need to hear from you. We do not believe what you said.
Dear Linyone, "I don't believe what I don't know " is said by many people. May I suggest instead that you say "I will try and find out if what you say is true or not. Where can I get more information, find books on the subject?" That way, you will learn more and more as you grow older, therefore older and wiser.


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On June 7, 2008, over one hundred researchers, students, practitioners, and policymakers met in Washington, DC for the fifth annual Long-Term Care Colloquium. The colloquium is part of a project sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and conducted by AcademyHealth that seeks to create a high-performing system of long-term care (LTC) by moving research into policy and practice. To achieve this end, the colloquium fosters conversation and collaboration on important questions among myriad long-term care stakeholders. To join our mailing list and learn more about ongoing activities of this initiative, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Building on momentum generated by the first four colloquia, the 2008 colloquium addressed these critical issues:
Susan Reinhard, Ph.D., Rhonda Montgomery, Ph.D., and Mary Jo Gibson presented highlights from their background paper on informal caregiving. Tamara Konetzka, Ph.D. likewise presented key findings from her background paperco-authored with Rachel Werner, M.D., Ph.D.on disparities in long-term care. Following each presentation, experts representing providers, consumers, and state and federal policymakers placed the discussion in a real world context. Facilitated small groups then discussed questions raised by the papers and discussants' comments, bringing their conclusions back to the entire group in a plenary session. In addition, Edward Miller, Ph.D., presented preliminary findings from a survey of LTC opinion leaders, which was followed by an open plenary discussion.
Our hope is that the colloquium papers and discussions will stimulate collaboration among LTC stakeholders, timely research and the application of research to high priority areas of LTC financing and service delivery.
While their integral role in the delivery of long-term care often goes unrecognized, family members, friends, and neighbors perform a vast majority of the services required by chronically ill and disabled individuals. While most have no medical training, informal caregivers perform myriad medical tasks in addition to helping their loved ones with essential daily activities such as eating, bathing, and dressing, informal caregivers. Beyond these roles in the home, they are often responsible for coordinating care from a variety of formal medical providers, translating the information to their family members, and advocating for the best possible treatment.
Susan Reinhard, Ph.D., R.N., the director of the AARP Public Policy Institute, opened her presentation by briefly reviewing the immensely important role informal caregivers play in long-term care in the United States. She noted that, the economic value of informal caregiving in 2006 was estimated at $350 billion, almost as much as Medicare's entire budget. In addition, many studies have proven that the presence of informal caregivers can delay and even prevent the use of nursing homes and is closely associated with shorter hospital stays and fewer readmissions.
In order to preserve the supply of informal caregivers in the face of an increasingly insufficient supply of formal long-term care providers, Reinhard emphasized that policy must consider caregivers both as providers of care and as potential secondary patients. As such, informal caregivers must be provided with the tools to give quality care in situations that could make nursing students tremble. At the same time, formal long-term care providers need to support informal caregivers by treating them as integral members of the medical team.
Rhonda Montgomery, Ph.D., the Helen Bader Endowed Chair of Applied Gerontology in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, built on Reinhard's introduction to the complexities of informal caregiving, addressing issues that arise for policymakers.
She believes that the American ideologies of individualism and familism subconsciously imposing heavy obligations on informal caregivers without affording them corresponding rights or tools to meet those obligations. She noted that current LTC funding mechanisms do not support informal caregiving, placing the financial responsibility on the shoulders of the patient's family.
Montgomery also identified the potential benefits of interventions designed to support informal caregivers, including stress reduction, skill building, cost reduction, and avoidance of premature nursing home placement. She went on to identify priority areas for researchers interested in building the evidence-base for policy changes, including:
Gail Hunt, CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving, commented on the paper from her perspective as a researcher working in an organization that supports family caregivers and the professionals who help them. She identified additional areas where further research is necessary and suggested sources of funding for interventions to support caregivers, such as:
Hunt warned that, until further research identifies areas where interventions will be effective and cost-saving and informal caregivers identify themselves as members of a cohesive group, Congress will continue to avoid the issue, labeling it too complicated and expensive to change.
Mary Jo Gibson, a Strategic Policy Advisor in AARP's Public Policy Institute, identified a wide variety of policy options to improve informal caregiving. Specifically, she suggested:
John Wren, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Management at the U.S. Administration on Aging, added to Gibson's comments about the implications of informal caregiving for public policy. He challenged policymakers to acknowledge the dominance of informal caregivers in the field of long-term care. Additionally, he argued that state and federal governments should shift their focus from creating specific service programs to supporting informal caregivers with integrated and flexible, consumer-directed service models. Reminding researchers of the importance of demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of supporting informal caregivers, he advocated shifting money from less-effective areas of long-term care financing into flexible support programs for informal caregivers.
Following the speakers' presentations, colloquium participants engaged in lively debate of policy issues, research questions, and potential funding solutions for reform in long-term care within their small groups. They then identified the most important points from their discussion and shared them with the large group.
The participants suggested setting policy priorities to target the structural and financial needs of informal caregivers. To inform such policies, they stressed the need for rigorous cost-effective analyses of specific interventions over time. They suggested looking into capitated models of funding, such as PACE, as potential funding alternatives to direct cash incentives for informal caregivers. Many participants discussed the need for informal caregivers to develop a strong political voice, and encouraged research on the effects of informal caregiver unions and other frameworks for organizing informal caregivers.
Tamara Konetzka, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago, presented highlights from the paper she co-authored with Rachel Werner, M.D., Ph.D., synthesizing research on disparities in long-term care and identifying remaining research and policy issues.
The authors used the definition of disparities (as opposed to differences) developed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) for its study of disparities in overall health care. The 2002 IOM report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, defined disparities as racial or ethnic differences in the quality of healthcare that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention. Konetzka and Werner use a modified version of that definition to frame their exploration of disparities in access, quality, and use of long-term care along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines
In their review of the literature on disparities in LTC, the authors found dramatic evidence of disparities in the different groups' use of LTC as well as in the quality of the care they received. Nevertheless, they determined that disparities in quality of care were overwhelmingly the result of segregationwhere people go for long-term carerather than individual discrimination within particular nursing homes or agencies.
Noting that most efforts at quality improvement in long-term care have utilized market-based incentives, Konetzka and Werner hypothesized that increasing information and competition among long-term care providers might inadvertently increase disparities. For example, more educated or wealthy residents might have more access to and understanding of publicly available quality information. The authors also point to evidence that disparities in use of information technology on a whole may be increasing, which could be reflected in increased disparities in the use of quality information.
The researchers also found that market-based incentives might disproportionately help high-performing providers who already have the capital necessary to invest in quality improvements. Furthermore, market-based incentives for quality improvement could force low-quality providers out of the market, exacerbating existing access issues.
Likewise, the authors observe that consumer-directed care could increase disparities if low-income groups are less able to navigate the system to access high-quality providers, or if those groups are unable to take advantage of those services for reasons of cost.
Nevertheless, consumer-directed care could decrease disparities by increasing the choice among individuals of low socio-economic status. The greater choice within low-income communities could potentially induce an increase in supply of providers where there formerly were few options, as well as create jobs in those neighborhoods by paying informal caregivers.
Based on their review of the entire body of literature on disparities in long-term care, Konetzka and Werner identify research priorities to further understanding of disparities, their causes, and their solutions. They encourage researchers to focus their efforts on:
Laura Trejo, the General Manager for the Los Angeles Department of Aging, spoke from a local policy perspective on disparities in access, quality, and use of long-term care services. She noted that utilization of services depends on the availability, accessibility, and acceptability of care. Trejo urged researchers to consider the wide diversity of the aging population and to include ethnic diversity in their studies of long-term care.
Konetzka identified six potential policy modifications to consider in the discussion about how to eliminate disparities in long-term care. They included:
Ultimately, Konetzka reminded colloquium participants that improving overall quality and decreasing disparities do not have to be mutually exclusive campaigns. Both efforts will be more effective if policies are developed with both ends in mind.
In her comments on the paper, Laura Trejo challenged policymakers to design culturally-competent policies that take into account the cultural needs, as well as the financial and service needs, of a diverse aging population. She called for effective outreach to help the entire community take advantage of available resources for long-term care. To that end, she reminded the participants not to assume that immigrant populations are invariably literate in their native tongue. Rather than simply making use of printed materials or the internet, to really reduce disparities in long-term care, outreach must include face-to-face contact with the most vulnerable populations.
Clari Gilbert, the Executive Vice President of Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, spoke on the topic of long-term care disparities from her perspective as a provider. She emphasized that patients and their families come to nursing homes at an extremely vulnerable time of life. They often lack awareness about what kind of care they should be receiving, inhibiting their ability to demand appropriate and high-quality care.
Gilbert highlighted differences in payers within her own organization, Beth Abraham Family of Health Services. At their facilities in Brooklyn and the Bronx, where there were many more nonwhite residents than white residents, a vast majority of both white and nonwhite residents relied on Medicaid to fund their long-term care. In Queens and Westchester, nonwhite and white populations were much more balanced, still with a majority of residents benefiting from Medicaid. Nevertheless, the proportion of Medicaid to other payers in those areas was much less drastic than in Brooklyn and the Bronx. These statistics illustrate the tendency of residents in nursing homes to reflect the makeup of the communities where they are located, supporting Konetzka and Werner's observation that disparities in the quality and use of long-term care services is tied much more closely to segregation across nursing homes along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines, rather than specific discrimination within a given facility.
Gilbert also warned that a diminished workforce will remain a crucial issue for the future of long-term care and challenged educators to broach the topic of disparities in their classrooms.
The presentations inspired a spirited debate among colloquium participants about the merits of different approaches to reducing disparities in long-term care. When they reported on their discussion to the larger group, a number of the small groups observed that some measure of ethnic segregation might be valuable for creating culturally-competent long-term care environments. Even if the concentration of people from similar cultural backgrounds might be desirable, however, they emphasized the need to improve provider performance in underserved communities. In terms of funding, some participants suggested that the government subsidize quality improvements in inner city long-term care institutions and agencies; others suggested scaled pay for performance systems giving greater incentives for quality improvements in low-performing providers. On the research front, participants suggested looking into differences between short-term and long-term nursing home users, assessment of waiver programs, and the effects of person centered care as a way to alleviate disparities.
The Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Care Opinion Leader Survey: A First Look
Edward Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Community Health, and Faculty, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University, presented preliminary findings from the Long-Term Care Opinion Leader Survey sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund. The survey was designed to assess LTC opinion leaders' views on the current state of LTC in the United States and potential areas and strategies for reform.
Miller, together with co-investigators Vincent Mor, Ph.D. and Melissa Clark, Ph.D., also at Brown, approached 2,577 leaders in the field of long-term care. They obtained a response rate of 44.5 percent. Among the respondents, 10.6 percent were consumer advocates, 25.9 percent provider representatives, 31.8 percent public officials, and 24.3 percent academics and other policy experts. There were varying levels of consensus among stakeholder groups vis-à-vis the questions asked.
Respondents felt that workforce recruitment and retention, along with financing and quality of care, is among the most pressing challenges facing long-term care. Furthermore, some provider types (hospice, adult day care) were viewed much more favorably than others (nursing homes).
The survey addressed both the paid and unpaid workforce. All agreed that improved work environments and compensation would be effective approaches for recruiting and retaining nurse assistants, home health aides, and other paraprofessional workers. Approximately two thirds felt that care-coordination and counseling, respite, and adult day care would be effective strategies for supporting informal caregivers. There was slightly less enthusiasm for paying family members, though consumer advocates strongly supported this strategy as well.
To better finance long-term care, a large majority felt that payment should be a shared responsibility. Approximately half thought that government programs should cover most costs, or, perhaps surprisingly, that employers should share in the burden. Comparatively few felt that individuals should pay most costs, and even fewer that adult children should contribute. Most favored adding a new long-term care benefit to Medicare, financed by a premium, and almost as many supported government incentives to promote greater savings and long-term care insurance purchases.
Though a large percentage was familiar with resident-centered care or culture change, few believed that more than one quarter of nursing homes had fully adopted it. The most frequently cited barriers included cost, resistance on the part of senior leadership, and regulation. Few felt that the federal government was doing well or very well regulating nursing homes or home health care agencies. However, large percentages believed that aspects of the nursing home model of long-term care regulation should be applied to assisted living as well.
A majority of respondents believed that payment incentives such as pay-for-performance would be the most effective way of ensuring and improving quality in long-term care. Consumer advocates were much more likely to favor more aggressive regulatory enforcement and higher staffing requirements, while provider representatives were much more likely to favor increased payment rates. Disagreement in this and other areas shows where consensus building efforts are especially necessary, not only to meet the demographic challenges ahead but also to provide higher quality, more preferred, and appropriate care to the current population of elders.
Next Steps
David Grabowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and incoming Building Bridges Chair, closed the colloquium with thoughts for researchers and policymakers to consider as they return to their work in long-term care. He challenged the long-term care community to think holistically about care in research and policy instead of fragmenting it into informal and formal sectors. He encouraged participants to continue to disseminate new knowledge about long-term care into broader public consciousness in order to allow the research and ideas generated at the colloquium and elsewhere to truly inform health policy. Finally, he challenged the colloquium participants to think strategically about how to address disparities as an integral part of quality improvement efforts.


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