Since around 2010, the city has been encouraging the development of such accessory dwelling units,...
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Poor by Design: SSI Asset Caps
"If you receive SSI, you cannot accumulate more than $2,000 in assets, or $3,000 for couples....
Children With Complex Medical Needs Belong at Home
Children belong at home with their families. For children with complex medical needs, this is...
Staff Needs: The Spaces of Hospice
Hospice work suffers from the same historical undervaluing that plagues all home health labor,...
What People With Disabilities Know About Surviving Climate Disasters
According to US Census Bureau data released in January, the majority of disabled Americans...
An Excellent View of Oblivion
In art, we edit the narrative details to maintain credibility. In life, the universe never doubts...
Moving Is a Monumental Task for Many Older Americans. These Organizers Can Help.
“It’s not just packing and unpacking,” Ms. Buysse said. “It’s working with the clients and the...
Deinstitutionalization is one of our biggest public policy failures. Here’s how we can reverse it.
The policy began in the 1960s with the closure of psychiatric hospital beds — it was to be the...
Care Tactics
While the press applauds the tech sector’s forward-thinking and sensitivity to the needs of...
The Underground Economy of Unpaid Care
At the time, my mom was living in Bellingham, Washington, two years into providing unpaid live-in...
Tethered to a ventilator for most of his life, how Ryan Lythall found his voice
His story? When Lythall was six-months-old, his mother, Irene, rushed him to CHEO where he had an...
And So on and So Forth
The woman is my mother, who is 81 and losing her memory, the past dissolving each day like so many...
New York Let Residences for Kids With Serious Mental Health Problems Vanish. Desperate Families Call the Cops Instead.
Taylor searched desperately for help, signing Amari up for therapy and putting her on waitlists...
Sabrina’s Parents Love Her. But the Meltdowns Are Too Much.
Sabrina, who was given a diagnosis of autism coupled with a rare genetic disorder, has exhibited...
Generation X Volunteers Want to Help You, and One Day Themselves, Age at Home
Ms. McWhinney-Morse was in her mid-60s when she and a handful of others her age started laying the...
Meet the Underdog of Senior Care
Ms. Biteranta now receives all of her health care through PACE, which monitors her, along with 120...
Too far, too big, too dangerous — families pitch alternative to large care homes ahead of budget
The long-term care home is so small, it could be mistaken for a large suburban house. Ten beds, a...
I feel guilty for checking my mother into long-term care against her will
For close to two hours, my mom had stubbornly resisted our cajoling, pleading and arguing as we...
How Nursing Homes’ Worst Offenses Are Hidden From the Public
A New York Times investigation found that at least 2,700 similarly dangerous incidents were also...
Churn
Nobody just “stops by” this house. My mother won’t let anyone she knows come near the outside,...
Some young adults with disabilities are stuck in long-term care. They say that’s discrimination.
For the past decade, [Victoria] Levack has lived, reluctantly, at the Arborstone Enhanced Care...
Concealment and Compassion
As we know from classical traditions of mnemonic loci, like the memory palace, memory is often...
The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly
Some older adults have diligently prepared for their future. They purchased long-term care...
Benefits and disability: ‘I’ll never cohabit again, to protect myself’
Benefits exist to support people in times of need. But for some disabled people, household...