Advocates say that disabled veterans will be major beneficiaries of the change in age eligibility, since they often ...

California Sen. Adam Schiff is leading a bipartisan effort to improve emergency services for older adults and disabled people ...

Adults with disabilities are nearly twice as likely to misuse prescription drugs as adults without disabilities, according to West Virginia University research. Jeanette Garcia, associate professor at ...

A new study is among the first to estimate the number of adults in the U.S. with intellectual disability, offering policymakers and other stakeholders a snapshot of the need for resources. Just shy of ...

A national survey of disability services providers found that many of those providers are experiencing a shortage of direct ...

It’s a big election year. People are already declaring candidacy for office, and the political ads will start ramping up soon ...

Independence focuses on one individual achieving a goal or task fully on their own. Interdependence is a dynamic, mutual ...

For many people with disabilities, getting married can come with a steep cost: the loss of federal benefits that provide ...

People with intellectual disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, have historically had shorter life expectancies than the general population, but data from a ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Christopher McGeever was 22, he aged out of the educational services available to him and needed to enroll in another program for adults with disabilities. There are several ...

Disabled adults face more obstacles in building credit and maintaining financial health than non-disabled adults. For example, adults with disabilities are less likely to be approved for and hold a ...