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 ...

BOSTON — Nursing homes looking to retain more of their frontline staff should level up their retention game by pouring more resources into direct care supervisors, experts recommended here Sunday. “If ...

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 ...

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 ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Every day, Sermoune Blaylock cares for her child. “(I) wake him up in the morning ...