California closely monitors whether nursing home residents fall. Regulators track incidents, facilities report them and ...

While everyone is feeling the pain, advocates urge older adults and people with disabilities to consider some of the available low-cost or free transportation solutions. “Above all, we don’t want ...

Yet women and marginalized groups bear the brunt of this problem. So, our call to action is clear: We need to heal the ...

UC Davis, center, has programs to provide health care to rural communities statewide. Photo by Hal Bergman/iStock. Every Californian should have access to quality health care, no matter where they ...

To those who knew him, Noah Silver was a bright, happy child identified as gifted with a penchant for playing instruments. He started playing bass guitar at the age of 11 and picked up acoustic guitar ...

For more than 20 years, Jessica Johnson lived on the streets of El Sobrante, Antioch and other cities in Contra Costa County. For a while, she slept behind a bank. Sometimes, she’d find respite in a ...

Without serious intervention, July 1 will usher in a new era for American health care, carrying dire consequences for decades to come. Under President Donald Trump’s big 2025 budget bill, known as H.R ...

I was in my mid-40s when I found a lump in my left breast. It wasn’t long before doctors detected cancer on the right side as well, and soon after that I was meeting with a plastic surgeon to discuss ...

Spencer Austin with Micka Sorani, a Spelling to Communicate practitioner, during a recent spelling session in Newbury Park. Photos courtesy of Karen Harrison. How do I begin such a topic when those ...

In California, the ability to move safely and confidently is often treated as a personal responsibility rather than a public health issue. For many older adults, especially those with low incomes, ...

Attendees at a Family Services Alliance rally at San Francisco’s City Hall in May 2023. Photo courtesy of Safe & Sound. When Raya left Oakland in 2020, she was pregnant with her daughter, had little ...