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 ...
Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to contribute to the special rapporteur’s report on care and support for children with disabilities within the family environment and its gendered ...
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 ...
Previous research has documented shortages of personal care aides who provide Medicaid home and community-based services, but there are few detailed geographic data to determine the areas of greatest ...
Home Care Workers Protect the Civil Liberties of People with Disabilities. They Need Protection, Too
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 ...
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