Advocates, including from Long Island, call for better pay and affordable housing for DSPs as rising costs and federal cuts ...

Kathy Hochul offers a 2.5% cost-of-living increase in her budget plan. State lawmakers want an 8.5% hike for direct-care professionals. Advocates and nonprofits that employ DSPs say that's still not ...

Credit: Getty Images Health care workers with disabilities face significant challenges, such as employment discrimination, lack of accessibility, and ableism. Nurses constitute the largest group of ...

More than 130,000 New Yorkers are living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) and 85% of them are served by nonprofit providers. Over the last decade, the nonprofit I/DD community ...

A new report makes a series of recommendations the authors say will strengthen Medicaid home- and community-based services and support direct care workers, but one Illinois advocacy organization says ...

At the onset of the pandemic, as most of the country shuttered themselves inside to avoid COVID-19 infection, home health aides remained on the front lines, taking care of our loved ones and risking ...

Underneath my calm façade, the anxiety is overwhelming. It happens every time, unfailingly, whenever my husband and I drop off my son at his group home after he visits us. My son is a 25-year-old ...

Patients with disabilities are less likely to feel health care workers treat them respectfully, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.