Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Jul 29, 2007

More Sunday stories

-- Alzheimer's advocates counter misconceptions among minority communities. From the Boston Globe. The campaign is part of an effort to address cultural barriers to dementia care among African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Latinos and other groups.

"Driving the initiatives is concern that increasing numbers of African-Americans and Latinos are at high risk of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia because they have cardiovascular disease or diabetes, and because they are reaching their 60s, 70s and 80s, when dementia typically strikes."
-- Tips for planning vacations for people with disabilities. From the Dallas Morning News.

-- Harvard business school student with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) uses B-school techniques to encourage research into drug treatments. From the Boston Globe.

Jul 27, 2007

Law grants new rights to European travelers with disabilities


The BBC reports that a new law passed by the European parliament will improve air travel for people with disabilities. Under the new rules, airlines will no loger be able to refuse to fly people because they have disabilities.