Study shows a rising, but uneven, tide of in-home care for disabled seniors

More seniors are getting help from family, friends and hired helpers to keep them in their homes, despite disabilities that keep them from total independence, a new study finds. Half of disabled seniors in a long-term study got in-home help in 2012, up 20 percent from the late 1990s. But that increase isn’t happening evenly across all groups — and has implications for the careers and health of caregivers.