Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An In-Home Supportive Services care provider helps a client at her home in Thousand Oaks. Proposed budget cuts would close the ...

The state of California spent 16 years developing a new payroll system for the in-home supportive services program. Its initial roll out has gone so badly that Orange County officials are warning the ...

Reporting from Sacramento — California’s program to provide in-home care for its low-income elderly and disabled residents finds itself once again at the heart of a state budget standoff. It is ...

In the mornings, Rosa Andresen showers hurriedly before her daughter wakes up, worried the 24-year-old might suffer a seizure or tumble out of the bed while she is still shampooing her hair. Her ...

I’ve been an in-home supportive services provider in Marin County since 2021. I work with low income, disabled adults who are in my age range – between 60 and 85 years old. The IHSS program, ...

“¿Quieres bailar?” Norma Galvan asks her father in Spanish if he would like to dance on a recent Friday afternoon. The 83-year-old replies “Sí, sí,” — “Yes, yes” — as his daughter guides his feet into ...

In Bell Gardens, Raquel Martinez said she has relied for nearly three years on a program that pays an assistant to help her make it safely to her frequent appointments at the MLK Medical Campus.