As the U.S. population continues to age, the demand for direct-care workers who provide care, services and support to the elderly and the disabled is expected to rise dramatically. A recent survey by ...

Two bills that would require nursing homes to devote 80% of their funds to the direct care of residents moved through the Human Services Committee on Thursday despite objections from industry leaders, ...

Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-03), Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) have introduced legislation to invest in and support direct care workers. The Direct Creation, ...

Rebecca Bryant, president and CEO of Lakes Region Community Services, a New Hampshire social services organization, penned an impressive opinion piece in the March 1-14 issue of the NH Business Review ...

Maribel Slinde is board chair of Iowa CareGivers. The demand for direct care workers, or DCWs, will increase substantially in coming years as the population of older adults and people with ...

Direct primary care is yet another in a long line of ideas to help reinvigorate primary care for both doctors and patients. Some view it as a panacea, others as snake oil. I’m not sure what it is, but ...

Kevin Gibas is an infectious diseases doctor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as well as a research fellow with a focus in health policy at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. As the ...