Cutting programs for the mentally ill, disabled and poor elderly residents, the state’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)

In an attempt to overhaul Washington’s adult family-home system, the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is seeking new

A SYSTEMIC overhaul of Washington’s adult family home industry must lead to tougher regulations. The urgency is heartbreakingly illustrated by

In a rare conviction involving elder neglect, a former caregiver at a Kirkland adult family home was sentenced to 31

The explosion that had ravaged Audree Hopkins’ face, burning off both earlobes and the end of her nose, was a

Some fell to the floor and bled to death internally. Others choked on food and suffocated. Still others languished for

Social Security turned 75 last week. It should have been a joyous occasion, a time to celebrate a program that