WBFO Older Adults News Desk

Erie County’s series of nursing home regulations, known as Ruthie’s Law, are “unlawful, unconstitutional and unenforceable,” a New York State Supreme Court justice ruled this week.

Rep. Brian Higgins (D-Buffalo) is co-sponsoring legislation that aims to provide a significant annual investment in the home and community-based care economy. He appeared Tuesday in Buffalo, joined by union leaders, workers and advocates, pushing for inclusion of the Better Care, Better Jobs Act in the federal government’s broader Build Back Better compromise bill.

A $400 billion elder care proposal, originally included in President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan, would expand Medicaid coverage for home and community-based services, as well as increase the home care aide workforce.

More older adults on Buffalo’s East Side will be able to age in their own neighborhoods, as an affordable housing complex several years in the making is now open.

After a recent AARP survey found that nearly 80% of New York’s 2.5 million unpaid family caregivers spend a significant amount of their own money to care for a loved one, the organization is pushing for federal and state tax credits to help ease that growing burden.

Buffalo officials observed World Elder Abuse Awareness Day following a year and pandemic that in many ways pushed older adults to the forefront.The…

With the state Legislature session getting close to the end, there's a fight over this year's criminal justice reforms, and it has Erie County District…

Nursing unions are celebrating the recent passage of New York’s “safe staffing” bill, which will mandate nursing homes provide residents an average of at…

The New York State Legislature passed a “safe staffing” bill for nursing homes on Tuesday, requiring that the often understaffed facilities provide at…

A home healthcare aide has pleaded guilty of stealing $50,000 from his elderly client in Akron.In Erie County Court Tuesday, Gregory Dread, 25, of Buffalo…