Now, a new La Grange area nonprofit, OptWell, is on hand to help educate people with approaches to healthy aging. The group will host a free presentation and resource fair called Healthy Aging, ...

“The majority of counties don't do most of the long-term commitments,” said Kawamura, who helps oversee cases involving ...

Commitments can last up to six months, and be extended afterward if necessary. Because the action denies a person’s civil ...

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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has initiated the layoffs that will impact roughly 10,000 of its employees ...

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Antipsychotics prescribed to foster youth in California have shown a remarkable decline in the years since reform measures ...

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Half a century after the state tightened the criteria for involuntary commitment, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make it easier to hospitalize mentally ill people against their will.

Colorado regulators are issuing licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms and are planning to authorize the state’s first ...