Disability Issues

The Senate has passed a bill intended to expand health care access and disability benefits for the roughly 3.5 million veterans exposed to toxic burn pits while serving in the military.

Guardianship can be an important part of special needs planning. Children with disabilities who can’t manage personal and financial affairs may need guardians as adults but still retain many fundamental rights.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new Medicaid home health benefit designed for children with medically complex condition.

Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs), like advance directives for health care, let a person with a mental illness lay out in advance the mental health care they want during a crisis that may require hospitalization.

Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs), like advance directives for health care, let a person with a mental illness lay out in advance the mental health care they want during a crisis that may require hospitalization.

New family-friendly guidelines offer advice and important recommendations to a large (but largely under-the-radar) population: adults with Down syndrome.

Many relatives or caretakers of loved ones living with a disability may at some point need to be able to exert more control over their family member's personal affairs.

As of mid-July, a new three-digit federal phone number, 988, is available to offer confidential, emergency support 24 hours a day, seven days a week for individuals experiencing mental health crises and emotional distress...

At-home COVID tests designed to be more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision are now available for free.