Senior Living

Disabled recipients of Medicaid home care services are much happier under an experimental program that allows them to hire the helpers themselves, a new study concludes. More . . .

An ElderLawAnswers law firm has won an important legal victory in preventing an Indiana nursing home from forcing a 98-year-old Medicaid resident to move to a part of the facility set aside for patients whose care is funded by Medicaid.

In an effort to keep assisted living facilities safe, regulators in Iowa are forcing some frail residents to relocate to nursing homes. A report on National Public Radio's Morning Edition highlights the plight of one 92-year-old woman who is...

The nursing home ombudsman program is generally failing to do its job of protecting residents from abuse and neglect, according to an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, part of the paper's weeklong investigative series on preventable deaths in nursing...

A working group charged with making recommendations on how to regulate the rapidly expanding assisted living industry has issued its final report. A number of consumer members of the group expressed keen disappointment with the report. More .

In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states may use the 'income-first' method to raise the income of spouses of Medicaid applicants to minimum levels. The ruling means that some spouses may be thrown into...

The anxiety and desperation one feels when faced with a spouse's aging or illness can be overwhelming.

A Florida jury awarded $3 million in compensatory damages and $17 million in punitive damages because of a corporate policy resulting in substandard care.

Where's the budget surplus going? Not to helping people stay at home...