Posts Tagged ‘Senator Bob Casey’
Senate Aging Committee Introduces Report to Improve Nation’s Guardianship System
Last month, U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, held a US Special Committee on Aging hearing, to release its 2018 annual report that details a year-long examination of guardianship arrangements including research and recommendations on ways to improve the guardianship system in the United States. At…
Read More
Actress Gay Harden, an Alzheimer’s Caregiver, Testifies Before Senate Aging Panel
Last week, Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, who recently published a personal memoir, “The Seasons of My Mother: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Flowers,” detailing her relationship with her mother who is living with Alzheimer’s and the effect of the disease on her mother and her family, came to Capitol Hill to urge…
Read More
Grandparent Bill heads to President’s Desk for Signature
While Congressional gridlock continues to block the passage of legislation, one bipartisan bill gets thumbs up from both the GOP-controlled Congress and the Democrats. Just days ago, the final Senate passages of the S,1091, Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act, now head to the President’s desk to be signed into law. U.S. Representatives Jim McGovern (D-MA)…
Read More