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If you live in a state that hasn’t yet had its presidential primary and you’re wavering between Senators Obama and Clinton — or if you’re just curious to see where they stand on long-term care — check out their answers to 15 questions posed late last year by the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations. All the then-current [...]

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“Michiganders would no doubt be shocked to learn that many of the 1 million residents of our state without access to health care are themselves health care workers,” says an excellent editorial in the May 9 Traverse City Record-Eagle. “Many nursing home workers, for example, are offered extremely expensive health care plans that will cover [...]

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Modules on stress management and dealing with bereavement were the most effective parts of a training program designed to increase professionalism in personal assistance workers, according to a study published in the current issue of Home Health Care Management and Practice.

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[wpyt-post]QNJBlMYgo1Y[/wpyt-post] If you’re reading this, you probably know just how much our nation needs competent, confident and caring direct-care workers to fill the growing demand for home care services. You also know how important it is for home care workers to get the training and support they need to do the job right. But how [...]

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“Every day, my family and countless others trust direct care staff to care for our loved ones. Yet we pay them less than we pay many of the college students brewing skinny lattes at Starbucks. Meager staff pay and benefits are the shameful back story of the generally positive effort to move intellectually-disabled people out [...]

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As part of National Women’s Health Week last week, the PHI Health Care for Health Care Workers campaign delivered a sobering report – Invisible Care Gap: Caregivers without Health Coverage – on the health insurance status of our nation’s caregiving workforce, 90 percent of which is female. Read more about the report and download a copy at our Health [...]

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