Advocates say understaffing at the Kansas agency that regulates adult care homes puts elderly and disabled residents at risk of abuse and neglect.

The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services has not responded to KSHB 41's request for comment about May 2025 ...

The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services has not responded to KSHB 41’s request for comment about May 2025 ...

Kansas is facing a severe shortage of nursing home surveyors, with more than half of these positions at the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability ...

The claims are supported by data indicating a critical shortage of nursing home investigators. According to numbers provided by KDADS in May and June, more than half of surveyor positions for ...

KDADS did not respond to questions about whether severity and urgency determinations are communicated to people who file complaints, or whether those determinations have an appeals process.

Sedgwick County will build a new outdoor fitness area at Sedgwick County Park for adults 60 and older, including those with ...

A Lawrence-based nonprofit that staffs the state’s suicide prevention crisis line may need financial help from Douglas County after it had to repay nearly $300,000 of misspent grant funds. A ...

The cuts required of the governor took the biggest bite out of the Kansas Department for Children and Families by stripping ...

Gov. Laura Kelly denounced across-the-board spending reductions ordered by the Kansas Legislature that sliced $189,000 from the Kansas School for the Deaf and $124,000 from the Kansas School for the ...