The fight to stay home: How a Texas lawsuit could upend disability care

Disability rights groups throughout the country have voiced their opposition to the lawsuit. The Arc of Texas, which ...
The Conversation

‘Who looks after me?’ More than 40% of disability carers have disability themselves – and they need more support

Senior Research Fellow, Transforming early Education and Child Health Research Centre, Western Sydney University Gabrielle Weidemann receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the ...
Forbes

Assisted Living Options For People With Disabilities

Deb Hipp is a freelance health and medical writer and editor who lives in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a former investigative reporter with more than 25 years of experience as a journalist and writer ...
STAT

Q&A: Why physicians struggle to care for patients with disability

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...
Health Affairs

Physicians’ Perceptions Of People With Disability And Their Health Care

More than sixty-one million Americans have disabilities, and increasing evidence documents that they experience health care disparities. Although many factors likely contribute to these disparities, ...
The American Prospect

The Neglect of Disability Care

Alice (not her full name) has been a direct-support professional for 12 years. Direct-support professionals are paid caregivers who support disabled people, particularly those with intellectual and ...