RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THAT PERSON. WELL, IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, MORE THAN 1700 CASES OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND DISABLED ADULTS HAVE BEEN RECORDED BY THE AGING AND DISABILITY COMMISSION ...

Explore the Illinois assisted suicide bill that aims to legalize physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- When police had to make the family notification after a 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability died in the hospital, the man's mother, who's accused of allowing her ...

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- A 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability may have been neglected to the point where he weighed 70 pounds and had multiple disfigurements, including flesh rot and ...

A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly collecting nearly $100,000 in disability payments Connecticut paid to her ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Months after systemic abuse within the state’s developmental disabilities care program came to light, health officials are continuing to try to improve the ability to report ...

The data has come from a series of national surveys and provides insights into the lives of those with a disability.

NEWTON, Kan. (KSNW) — Proposed federal budget cuts could hurt programs that protect the rights of people with disabilities and prevent abuse. Nancy Jensen remembers the years she spent at Kaufman ...

You don’t have to read past the first two sentences of the summary of the latest audit of the S.C. Department of Disabilities and Special Needs to recognize that heads need to roll: “DDSN does not ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Chun-hee] Although the number of reported cases of abuse against persons with disabilities decreased last year, the actual number of abuse cases was found to have increased.

Data from Kentucky officials show that incidents of abuse at child care centers across the Commonwealth have increased at an ...