GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The president of a restraint-free, direct care training program is sharing insight on its benefits after state documents showed the approach was being implemented at ...

Author Dorothy Paad's father hands her a copy of one of her books during a talk at Michigan State University on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. Paad and her father have a close bond, and he's helped her ...

Sandra Hansonof Glastonbury, Noemi Gonzalezand Andrea M. Payneof East Hartford, Mary Jo Maciag of Bolton and Olga Toroof Manchester recently graduated from the Capitol Region Education Council’s ...

Policymakers must invest in strengthening the direct care workforce in order to improve the quality of care delivered to patients and to achieve better value for every dollar spent on long-term ...

National policy action is needed to increase worker compensation and meet demand for direct care services. Direct care workers move a patient bed into a new room so that other hospital rooms can be ...

Underneath my calm façade, the anxiety is overwhelming. It happens every time, unfailingly, whenever my husband and I drop off my son at his group home after he visits us. My son is a 25-year-old ...

For the clients who work with care workers — older adults and people with disabilities — the assistance of care workers can help them to live their lives to the fullest. Credit: Licensed under the ...

Continuity of care, no third-party billing, and price transparency: direct care and concierge medicine have long embraced some of the benefits that traditional medicine lacks, and these models have ...