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Shortages continue to plague New Jerseys group homes for people with disabilities. The industry hopes technology can provide a solution.

Shortages continue to plague New Jerseys group homes for people with disabilities. The industry hopes technology can provide a solution.

Newhouse News Service HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Rose Alito, the 90-year-old mother of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, Monday leaned forward in an easy chair in the living room of the home her family has occupied for more than five decades and proudly walked through her son’s life.While thumbing through scrapbooks, she told reporter […]

Prostheses made specially for active lifestyles can get incredibly expensive, making it hard for those with limb loss to get moving.

/PRNewswire/ -- Luxe Interiors and Design Magazine and Benjamin Moore recently named Hester Painting & Decorating, based in Skokie, one of 25 of the industrys...

State comptroller examined New Jersey’s lowest-rated nursing homes participating in Medicaid program. 15 out of 368 were identified as worst long-term care facilities, ranked one-star by Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS due to staffing, health inspections, etc.

The report said policy makers are too insulated from the lives of people with disabilities.

The report said policy makers are too insulated from the lives of people with disabilities.

Advocates say aides who work in group homes for people with developmental disabilities need more money as low pay creates an exodus, stranding many.

Advocates say aides who work in group homes for people with developmental disabilities need more money as low pay creates an exodus, stranding many.