Download Release as PDF. PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release National Healthcare Workers’ Campaign Reports on America’s Most Dangerous Job: Caring for the Greatest Generation Report Shows High Rates of Injury, Inadequate Health Coverage May Result in Caregiver Shortage Bronx, NY, May 20, 2008— Direct-care workers — those who are now caring for America’s greatest generation [...]
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National Healthcare Workers’ Campaign Reports on America’s Most Dangerous Job
Posted on 20 May 2008.
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ANCOR Solicits DSP Videos
Posted on 16 May 2008.
If you’ve got a video camera and an itch to tell the world about why direct support professionals matter, you could win a prize in ANCOR’s DSP TV Online contest. ANCOR will be giving awards for the best video of the month until the contest ends. Grand prizes include a trip to New Orleans. All [...]
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Taking the Stress Out of Bathing
Posted on 16 May 2008.
“Many times, the resident and caregiver become pawns in the machinery that cranks out tasks. When bathing, or any other [caregiver-assisted activity] is viewed as a task that must fit into a set schedule and checked off a list, the resident’s own needs get lost,” says Joanne Rader in an article in the May issue [...]
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Porter Offers Tips on Avoiding Burnout
Posted on 16 May 2008.
“If we recruited 500,000 nurses and nurse aides today, we’d be short again in a month because we don’t have a workforce culture that is welcoming to new people,” says Lori Porter in a frank and lively interview in the April issue of Long Term Care Living. Porter, the founder and CEO of the National Association of Health [...]
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Conference Breaks Down LTC Silos
Posted on 16 May 2008.
Agenda and conference materials For people who have nothing to do with farming, long-term care advocates and analysts sure talk a lot about silos. And no wonder, considering the many ways in which the people who receive long-term care services and the people who assist them get segregated from — and often pitted against — one [...]
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Explaining the Care Gap
Posted on 15 May 2008.
If you need someone to understand the urgency of the growing care gap in long-term care, you might want to pass on a copy of Occupational Projections for Direct-Care Workers 2006-2016. “Our analysis suggests that demand for direct-care workers over the next decade, particularly in home- and community based settings, will continue to outpace supply [...]
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