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Recommendations Issued on Caring for People with Dementia at Home
'); document.write('\"These recommendations are an asset to the delivery of quality care, as they provide concrete advice and rationale for curricula and hands-on care for direct-care givers, as well as supervisory personnel,\" said Carol Rodat, PHI New York policy director and a member of the Alzheimer\'s Association\'s national advisory committee, which reviewed the recommendations.
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Home Health Care Industry Drives NYC Employment Growth
'); document.write('Employment gains made in New York’s home health care industry were responsible for the recovery of the city’s overall health care jobs market between 2002 and 2008, according to an analysis published in the September 2009 issue of Monthly Labor Review. “Home health care was the real jobs machine in New York City” during that time [...]
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Court Halts California?s Home Care Cuts
'); document.write('A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on October 19 to put a stop to California’s plan to notify 130,000 elderly clients and people with disabilities that their in-home supportive services would be reduced or eliminated entirely. The court ordered the state’s Department of Social Services to instead send reassuring letters to the clients, letting them [...]
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California Home Care Cuts Put on Hold
'); document.write('A federal judge stopped the state from sending notices to 130,000 elderly and disabled Californians to inform them that their home care supportive services would be reduced — or eliminated entirely — on November 1. A temporary restraining order — granted the day before the letters were to be dropped in the mail — prohibits the [...]
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Checking in With the Consumer Home Care Co-op Movement
'); document.write('“This is a movement in self-determination coming from the field of developmental disability,” says Holly Bohling. “People who want to direct their in-home care have come together to form cooperatives.” Bohling is a spokesperson for Federated Human Service Co-op (FHSC), a national co-operative of home-care co-ops whose stated mission is “to assist in the creation of [...]
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Evelyn Coke, Home Care Aide Who Fought Pay Rule, Dead at 74
'); document.write('Evelyn Coke, the New York home care attendant responsible for a 2007 US Supreme Court case challenging the exclusion of home care workers from minimum wage and overtime protections, has died at age 74, according to an article in the New York Times. The Times writes: Year in and year out, Evelyn Coke left her Queens [...]
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Real Wages Declining for Personal and Home Care Aides
'); document.write(' PHI PolicyWorks has released an updated State Chart Book on Wages for Personal and Home Care Aides (pdf). The chart book tracks wages in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for the period 1999-2008. It shows that nationally, the median real wage (adjusted for inflation) for personal and home care aides has [...]
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Support for Caregivers a Priority for Greenlee
'); document.write('Only three weeks into her tenure as HHS Assistant Secretary of Aging, Kathy Greenlee delivered the keynote address (doc) at this year’s annual conference of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) and used the opportunity to underscore the importance of home-based health care, including the caregivers who make it possible. Greenlee told the [...]
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Judge Blocks Home Care Unionization Vote in Missouri
'); document.write('Building on Missouri voters’ approval last November of a ballot initiative to create the Missouri Quality Homecare Council, which has authority to negotiate with workers over wages and benefits, Missouri’s in-home care workers have voted by a landslide margin in favor of organizing themselves into the Missouri Home Care Union. But even before the ballots were [...]
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California to Cut $226 Million From Home Care
'); document.write('California’s ongoing budget disaster edged nearer to some sort of resolution last week as state lawmakers approved a proposal to close the $25.3 billion gap through a package of 29 pieces of legislation. The bills included spending cuts, revenue solutions, borrowing, and fund shifts. The state’s In-Home Supportive Services program (IHSS), long recognized as one [...]
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