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 ...

Natascha Walker works full-time as her 22-year-old autistic daughter’s caregiver. Walker is a provider through California’s In-Home Support Services program, which enables disabled people and older ...

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 ...

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) ...

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, ...

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 ...

For seniors and people with disabilities, living independently comes with its challenges but disability rights advocates are fearful that without improvements to in-home support services, many of San ...

California lawmakers on Thursday passed a 2024-25 budget that rejected Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to cut in-home supportive services for low-income older, blind, and disabled immigrants lacking ...

Facing higher healthcare costs, Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing adding an “asset test” for applicants for Medi-Cal and In-Home Supportive Services. The test would mean Californians would not be ...