In California, the aging population has necessitated the development of programs like In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), which aim to enhance the quality of life for seniors and individuals with ...

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 ...

Marin County supervisors approved partial funding for a new three-year contract with In-Home Supportive Services workers this week that is projected to raise workers’ hourly wage from $18 to $21 by ...

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 ...

Our expert, Connie Arnold has worked to improve In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) for over 35 years and she uses IHSS attendants for her own independence. She’s agreed to come answer your questions ...

Assembly Democratic Caucus Chair Rick Chavez Zbur (D-Hollywood) has announced that the California State Assembly has passed AB 2704, a bill to eliminate barriers to In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...