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Ground-Breaking Study Proves: Creative Activism Linked with Healthy Aging!

by Raging Grannies
Raging Grannies demonstrated the direct link between creative activism and healthy aging at the Tenants and Owners Development Corporation (TODCO)-Coleman House.

Top Photo: Granny Jane and Bill, in front of Coleman House, rehearse "Take the Cure--SB 810 for California's Single-Payer Health Care".


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GROUND-BREAKING STUDY REVEALS---

Raging Granny activism contributes to significantly better scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale.

Raging Granny actions promote enhanced societal functioning and independence from corporate control.

Raging Grannies provide younger activists with role models to encourage a strong sense of meaning and purpose in the movement.

Fight Injustice, Live Long, Rage!
§Patients, Nurses, Doctors, all Agree
by Raging Grannies
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Single-Payer Health Care, best for California, best for the Nation! Cut out the Middlemen...no more private health care insurers!
§Like the sign says:
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U.S. health care system suffers from high overhead, bloated profits, constricted choice, conflict of interest and UNEVEN COVERAGE!
§...and speaking of uneven coverage
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Granny D is definitely suffering from just that!
§She needs the cure!
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§Nationalized Health Care also available in a pleasant tasting liquid
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H.R. 676, the magic elixir. The doctor says: while it may be too late for patients like this who have died under privatized health care, we need nationalized health care to save others!
§Granny Jane and "student granny" Ring the Bell
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Bringing the message of single payer health care to participants in the 2009 National Center for Creative Aging "Civic Engagement Symposium" at Coleman House. Enter here!
§Student Granny
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§Welcome to the Symposium
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Upon arrival the Grannies were immediately welcomed by symposium participants interested in joining the Grannies and learning more about single-payer health care.
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