Tennessee Disability Coalition News Blog

Getting Up Close and Personal with the Americans with Disabilities Act
By Shelley Kaplan and Sally Weiss*

With aging comes….senior discounts, early bird dinners, grandchildren and other benefits.  With aging…very often disability comes as well.  And, while magazines from AARP and other leisure-style publications run ads and articles about how we boomers can age in place, [...]

A coalition of disabilities groups is expected as early as Monday to call for a national boycott of the film “Tropic Thunder” because of what the groups consider the movie’s open ridicule of the intellectually disabled. The film, a movie-industry spoof directed by Ben Stiller, is set for release on Wednesday by [...]

First Tee of Nashville is hosting an adaptive golf clinic on August 23 from 9:00-10:30 AM for both amputees and people with spinal cord injuries.  It will be held at the VinnyLinks Golf Course in Nashville and space is limited.  All equipment will be provided including adaptive golf carts, and there will be instructors on [...]

Training for Patients, Family Members, Lawyers Advocates, Social Workers, Home Health Agency Nurses.
What will you learn at this meeting?
1.    New TennCare Letter concerning reduction in benefits.
2.    Patient appeal rights under Grier
3.    Appeal Process
4.    Why Ask for a in-person (face-to-face) hearing with an Administrative Law Judge

Knoxville Training
Friday, August 15th
1pm to 3:30pm
East TN Area Agency on Aging [...]