ABOUT 40% OF PERCENT OF U.S. COVID-19 DEATHS HAVE BEEN IN NURSING HOMES AND ASSISTED LIVING. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? U.S. SENATOR BOB CASEY OF PENNSYLVANIA, RANKING MEMBER OF THE SENATE’S COMMITTEE ON AGING, SPEAKS ON A VALID PODCAST.

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Disability advocates say that the pandemic's impact on nursing home patients has been nothing short of a disaster. Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies co-directors Shaylin Sluzalis and German Parodi speak about the results of their survey on the crisis.

Thirteen states will soon allow food stamp users to buy delivered groceries. This pilot program was included in the 2014 US Farm Bill but is only coming to many states due to COVID-19. We talk with Pennsylvania officials trying the program in June, and food stamp user Alisa Grishman.

The black-and-gold city’s in yellow--a partial reopening. How’s the government addressing the needs of people with physical and mental disabilities?

The author of Instability in Six Colors, Dr. Rachel Kallem Whitman, tells us why she sees hypomania as pink and mania as gold--and other ways she processes being bipolar. It's a mental health month special!

May is mental health month.

Could anxious times shift our relationship with medical marijuana? Dispensary owner Chris Kohan and Alisa Grishman, who takes marijuana for MS symptoms talk about the racist roots of the federal ban on the drug and how quarantine rules that allowed drive-through deliveries helped people with disabilities.

A film camp for people with autism is one of the few arts camps still scheduled to take place this summer in Pittsburgh. Episode guests: Joe Farrell, Director of Programs with Evolve Coaching, which runs the Joey Travolta/Arts for Autism Film Camp. And repeat camper/filmmakers Jared Braun and Darrel Pullie. Host: Nick Tommarello.

From the home of Mr. Rogers--Pittsburgh, PA--three disability advocates hold court on being helpful during COVID-19.

A group home resident forbidden from leaving the lawn during quarantine starts a podcast about family, faith and life in a crisis. A woman who has a disability podcasts about movies, TV, and entertainment for families--including an amusement park's autism center credentials.

Deaf lipreaders can't hear you with that mask on. Two women in that camp are happy you're keeping your droplets to yourself in the COVID-19 era, but they don't know what you're saying. If they have to go into a hospital at this time, they worry they'll be SOL. Journalist Lisa A. Goldstein joins this episode hosted by Nick Tommarello.