AT&T is now offering its customers, and even non-AT&T customers in-home support for everything from computer set-up to flat screen TV installation. Marguerite Reardon Former senior reporter Marguerite ...

Bernadette Walton is a Sacramento resident who is an in-home support service worker for her daughter. She provides for her 11-year-old daughter, who is autistic and needs support at home. Walton said ...

Florence Owens, an In-Home Supportive Services aide, brings Carol Crooks her morning coffee in Oakland. Proposed Medicaid cuts could endanger funding for aides such as Owens. (Ronnie Cohen for KFF ...

Brian Smith was getting ready for work one Thursday in 2018 when he was jolted by loud raps on the window and poked his head out the door to see his neighbors running from house to house yelling, ...

Across the country, older adults and their families share a common goal: the ability to live safely, independently, and confidently at home. The demand for home- and community-based services (HCBS) ...

California’s in-home caregivers, a historically underpaid workforce that serves a rapidly aging population, could receive a significant boost in bargaining power under a new bill introduced Friday.

“Tom’s a sweet guy, but he has absolutely no sense of self-preservation. He wanders; he gets up at all hours; if he can escape, he will. It’s ongoing home security,” Bouldin told the Independent.

With a Starbucks coffee cup in her hand and a half gallon of milk under her arm, Florence Owens let herself into Carol Crooks’ apartment on a Monday morning, announced herself with a cheery “hello,” ...