{"id":25271,"date":"2025-12-11T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25271"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:16:18","slug":"wheelchair-hearing-aids-yes-disabled-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25271","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair? Hearing Aids? Yes. \u2018Disabled\u2019? No Way."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Paula Span for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, \u201cthere are walkers and wheelchairs and oxygen and cannulas all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara, 82, has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, so a portable oxygen tank accompanies her everywhere. Spinal stenosis limits her mobility, necessitating the walkers and wheelchairs and considerable help from her husband, Dennis, who serves as her primary caregiver.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/older-people-disability-ada-michigan\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/older-people-disability-ada-michigan\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Paula Span for KFF Health News) In her house in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Barbara Meade said, \u201cthere are walkers and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,916,1477],"tags":[917,176,94,1975],"class_list":["post-25271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-disabled","category-hearing-aids","tag-disabled","tag-hearing-aids","tag-older-adults","tag-wheelchair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25272,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25271\/revisions\/25272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}