Advocates, including some in Portage County, are asking Ohio's legislators for pay raises for people who care for some of the state's most vulnerable citizens. Michelle Madden, CEO of Independence of ...

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MAMARONECK — On an early afternoon in this Westchester County town, the Wagner House is full of life. Some residents have gathered in the living room to watch television. Others are learning how to ...

Hochul pledges $2.4M for programs to diversify NY’s physician workforce $1.6B life science campus coming to Kips Bay HSS partners with medical-device startup on pain-management tech Despite a ...

Direct care workers caring for older adults and people with disabilities—defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as personal care aides, home health aides, and nursing assistants—make up the largest ...

National policy action is needed to increase worker compensation and meet demand for direct care services. Direct care workers move a patient bed into a new room so that other hospital rooms can be ...

The nearly five million direct care workers who support older adults and people with disabilities are the largest workforce in the U.S. But despite high demand, many are paid little more than minimum ...

Direct Support workers help Mainers stay connected to their communities. From her earliest memories, Kathleen’s mother, Alice, has been independent. Having raised four children largely on her own, ...

New York State’s failure to budget fairly and equitably for direct support professionals working in the not-for-profit space will one day prove unsustainable. That day cannot be far away. The risk is ...

Advocates, families and people with developmental disabilities are blasting Gov. Kathy Hochul's 2025 budget plan as insulting to the workers who support New York's most vulnerable citizens and ...

For the Reinke family, which includes three adult children on the autism spectrum, direct care workers are essential to a functioning household. The in-home professionals help people with intellectual ...

Direct-care workers make up Iowa's largest occupation - a population larger than nurses, teachers or public safety officers. Three of the top 10 high-growth, high-demand jobs in the coming decade are ...