...Joanna K. Weinberg Meredith Minkler and Kathleen Roe. Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic . Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993. 240 pp. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994...

... suggestions are tentative; and the book and the issue are so critical. Overall, however, this is a minor defect in an important and artfully written study. Grandmothers us Caregivers is a major contribution to the literature on caregiving and on the deficiencies of social policies for caregivers...

... on a black family from a poor inner-city neighborhood (North Lawndale) in Chicago. There are seven members in this extended family, three of whom are chronically ill: Jackie Banes, the mother, is the primary caretaker for her diabetic grandmother, a stroke- disabled father, her husband...

... include two coedited books, Critical Perspectives on Aging (1991) and Readings in the Political Economy of Aging (1984), and a coauthored book, Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic (Sage, 1993). Jonathan Oberlander received his B.A. from the University of...

... their care until the out-of-pocket maximum has been reached). California also decided against allowing grandmothered plans to stay in the market. Grandmothered plans are plans that began between policy years March 2010 and October 2013 and do not comply with the ACA's coverage requirements. While...

.... See Cook Tuohy. Carolyn. Response to the Clinton Proposal: A Comparative Perspective, I: 249-254 Weinberg, Joanna K. Review of Grandmothers as Caregivers:Raising Children ofthe Crack Cocaine Epidemic (Meredith Minkler and Kathleen Roe), 4: 909-914 Weissert, Carol S, Jack H...

... Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act . www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/OSEP/products/OSEP2000AnIRpt/index.html . Pope, S. 1993 . Low-Birth-Weight Infants Born to Adolescent Mothers: Effects of Co-residency with Grandmother on Child Development. Journal of the American Medical...

... every phy- sician’s-and every grandmother’s-prescription for upper respiratory infections: take aspirin or acetaminophen every four hours; drink lots of warm fluids; eat lightly but nutritionally; and get plenty of bed rest. For most homeless persons, none of these is practically possible...

... entitlement that grows from one hundred years of ever-expanding insurance. Aunt Hildegard paid into the system all her life, why should she have to pay five Marks a day for hospital care? Her grand- mother and great grandmother paid their premiums and got their care. Why shouldn’t she? I asked...

... like my grandmother [who suffered a painful cancer death]. And so, if you’re not as politically observant, maybe, if you don’t realize how vul- nerable people with disabilities can be to their health providers, you’re 990 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law going to be influenced by...