Mind, Body, Spirit
How Jewish traditions inform care for adults with disabilities Fact checked by Jim Lacy Shana Erenberg, PhD, listened closely one morning as her friend Baruch Schur shared a concern with her: He needed to move his son Josh out of state due to the lack of disability services in Chicago. Erenberg felt compelled to act. With […]
Op-Ed: Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Not Death with Dignity
Chicago Health is committed to publishing a diversity of opinions. The opinions expressed in this op-ed article are the author’s own. As a physician who works primarily with patients with disability, that is, with those who are at greatest risk to be pushed toward physician-assisted suicide, I feel compelled to respond to the article “Death with […]
Pandemic Upends Lives of People With Disabilities
Above photo: A diving accident in 1987 left all of Matt Ford’s limbs paralyzed. One of his caregivers, Grace Brunette, spent the first two weeks of the pandemic living in Ford’s basement to assist his father with daily caregiving tasks. (Courtesy of Matt Ford) When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Stacy Ellingen, 34, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, lost […]
