Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – After Gov. Maura Healey tried unsuccessfully to make budget cuts last year that would have reduced services to the ...

Ollie Tansimore has been caring for his 11-year-old granddaughter for the last 10 years. "My life is around her, and being around her," says Tansimore. "And we have a good relationship." Last year, he ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – After Gov. Maura Healey tried unsuccessfully to make budget cuts last year that would have reduced services to the elderly and people with disabilities, advocates are reaching out to ...

At the end of April, Tara Lynn Southard arrived at the Mattapan branch of the Boston Public Library on a mission. She had a stack of flyers in her hands. “Part-time PCA needed” they read, with a list ...

Editor's note: According to MassHealth, the state House of Representatives did not preserve the personal care attendant funding from fiscal 2024 in its fiscal 2025 proposal; A previous version of this ...

Darlene McGlotten-Whitehead says she's been a caregiver to her 10-year-old granddaughter, Laila, on and off for the last eight years. "A very smart little girl," says McGlotten-Whitehead. "Good at ...

Advocates in wheelchairs gathered outside Governor Maura Healey’s State House office early this spring, demanding she pull back on a proposal that could limit access to a home assistance program that ...

When Marguerite Spann comes to visit Edna Cain, she always wears a smile. "A smile is very important and encouraging, and it uplifts a person's spirit too," says Marguerite Spann, a volunteer with ...

Massachusetts doesn’t have a budget problem — it has a priority problem. On the heels of catching heat for her plans to shutter the Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children and the Pocasset Mental ...