Elderly disabled Texans wanting to stay in their homes threatened by low home care pay

AUSTIN, Texas — For 40 hours a week, Angela Blankenship takes care of Rick Frame, who’s been paralyzed from the neck down since a 1999 motorcycle accident. © Shafkat Anowar/The Dallas Morning News/TNS Laurie Truesdell and her community care attendant Leah Gardner, left, looking through a handicapped van, share a laugh on March 24, 2023, at Truesdell’s home in Mesquite, Texas. She helps him eat, bathe and move, allowing the former tool designer to stay in his Arlington home. Load Error “I’m able to live my life my own way,” Frame, 59, said. “I’ve heard nothing but horror stories about…