December 9, 2025 / As highlighted this week by The Washington Post, a perfect storm of immigration limits, caregiver ...

Mary Barket, a widow with a degenerative muscular disorder and no family around to help, has had seven different caregivers come through her home in the past six months. With limited use of her hands ...

If your parents or an older relative needs in-home care, and you’re worried about the cost, that’s understandable. There’s no sugarcoating it: Senior home health and personal care can be expensive.

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

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The health-care industry is directing its focus to home health care, thereby creating what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts will be a 70 percent surge in positions for in-home caregivers, ...

Early studies reveal the toll that lockdowns, isolation and stress have taken on those who care for older Americans. By Paula Span Mary Ann Boor could see her husband’s Alzheimer’s disease progressing ...

Karen’s 87-year-old mom finally agreed to have someone come in a few days a week to help with housekeeping, meal preparation and grocery shopping. Karen’s been asking her to accept help for months — ...

For these portraits of caregivers and the people they care for, the photographer Larry Fink, 82, visited families in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. By Michelle Cottle Photographs by Larry Fink Ms.

Study finds many home care agencies don't do drug testing or background checks. July 16, 2012— -- Marie Granberg's elderly father Mario was given last rites before a 2005 heart transplant, but he ...

Yolanda Farrell lay mostly paralyzed in a nursing home, unable to feed or dress herself, when her homeless daughter persuaded her to move out. Linda Maureen Raye, who relatives say had been living in ...