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“Most of the people that get into this work are women, and they have kids,” says Patti Green of her fellow direct-care workers. “A lot of them are single. They need to earn a decent hourly rate of pay, and they need to have health insurance.” “That would attract more people, and then if they [...]

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Download Release as PDF PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Vermont Legislative Study Tackles Direct Care Workforce Study Reveals that Wages, Health Coverage, Training are Keys to Retention Montpelier, VT, March 25, 2008 –An impending health care crisis has not gone unnoticed in the Green Mountain State. The number of Vermonters age 65 and older is [...]

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An interview in Long-Term Living (formerly Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management) describes what Online Editor John Oberlin calls “a cooperative, flexible, and resourceful program that would directly address … barriers to sustained employment.” Employees of two of the participating organizations discuss how the Opportunity Partnership & Empowerment Network (OPEN) program, a collaboration by eight providers in Kent [...]

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In yet another sign of how fast direct-care work is growing as a job category, only five kinds of work employed more women last year. According to a U.S. Department of Labor chart titled 20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women, there were 1.659 million female nursing, psychiatric and home health aides in the U.S. in 2007, making up [...]

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According to a new study, better wages and benefits are critical to retaining direct-care workers in Vermont, yet a third of the state’s direct-care workers have employer-sponsored health insurance and only half of the workers surveyed expected to receive a raise. Legislative Study of the Direct Care Workforce in Vermont also reports that only 42 [...]

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Differences in ethnicity and cultural background matter to nursing assistants, and managers who act as if they don’t exist create an uncomfortable work environment, according to a recent study of 135 nursing assistants from four New England nursing homes.” “Country of origin and racio-ethnicity: Are there differences in perceived organizational cultural competency and job satisfaction [...]

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