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Over the next month, the PHI Expert Interview series will bring you insights from four senior PHI staff. They’re an impressive group – among the nation’s leading experts on long-term care’s direct-care workforce – and collectively they’ve spent decades studying the challenges facing the workforce and how to address them. We think you’ll be interested [...]

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The Direct Care Alliance (DCA), a national advocacy organization for direct-care workers, is inaugurating its new midtown Manhattan headquarters on September 11. After a half-hour reception, the program will begin at 6 p.m. with a welcome from DCA Board Chair John Booker. Executive Director Leonila Vega, Stacey Easterling of The Atlantic Philanthropies, and direct-care worker Bridget Siljander [...]

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In response to a recent solicitation for comments from the federal government, PHI recommended changes to the three main categories used to track direct-care workers at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The government considers revisions to its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) categories every ten years. PHI also asked the government to address the exclusion [...]

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It’s just one sentence out of 52 pages – not including introductions and appendixes – but direct-care workers got a mention in the 2008 Democratic National Convention platform. In a section titled Renewing the American Community, under the subtitle “Seniors,” the platform (pdf) reads: “We will take steps to ensure that our seniors have meaningful long-term care options that [...]

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Whether you call it person-centered, person-directed, or just plain quality care, the goal is the same for everyone receiving or regulating long-term care services as it is for all conscientious care providers: Everyone wants care to be tailored to individual preferences and needs. Yet that common-sense goal can be surprisingly hard to achieve in our [...]

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Download Release as PDF PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Elders Vulnerable as Caregivers’ Real Wages Fall Gas prices depressing workers’ already low wages to near minimum wage Bronx, NY, August 11, 2008— Contradicting the law of supply and demand, America’s personal and home care aides are seeing their real wages (adjusted for inflation) decline as [...]

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