demos.org: How Home Health Care Aides Are A Microcosm of the Jobs Crisis
How Home Health Care Aides Are A Microcosm of the Jobs Crisis
One of the country’s fastest-growing jobs — home health and personal care aides — is also among its lowest-paying. In fact, as the economy barely managed to eke out any job gains last year, employment ...
Democrat and Chronicle: Job opportunity: How to become a home health aide
Home health aides assist at-home patients with a variety of tasks, including bathing, grooming, dressing, helping with exercises and more. “The primary role is hands-on personal care,” said Shelley ...
Embedded gender and racial discrimination and lack of bargaining power are major causes of not only low pay for home health care aides but for many of the country’s low-wage, fast-growing occupations.
AOL: Home health aides epitomize a key problem in the current job market
Home health aides epitomize a key problem in the current job market
STAT: Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?
On most days around 2 p.m., home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, playing catch with his client — a man in his 30s with a developmental disability who ...
Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?
Reuters: Injuries, too few work hours prompt home health aides to quit
(Reuters Health) – Preventing on-the-job injuries and providing enough work to those who want it are good first steps to retain valuable home health care aides, according to a U.S. study. Based on a ...