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New legislation introduced by the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging looks to strengthen the direct-care workforce in preparation for an older America. Introduced by Committee Chairman Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), the “Retooling the Health Care Workforce for an Aging America Act of 2008” echoes recommendations from an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released earlier [...]

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A group of historians from several U.S. universities — including NYU, Columbia, and Dartmouth — are submitting a letter to President-Elect Barack Obama (pdf), urging him to include women workers and people of color when he’s crafting his recovery package. The letter specifically mentions investing in “health and care work” and is in line with [...]

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PHI has been featured in a report on caregiving training programs and curricula conducted by the International Longevity Center (ILC) as an initiative of the Caregiving Project for Older Americans, a joint project of the ILC and the Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education. The review is national in scope, but special emphasis is [...]

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In a press conference Thursday on the adminstration’s plans to address health care reform, President-Elect Barack Obama officially announced Tom Daschle as his choice for both Secretary of Health and Human Services and director of the new White House Office of Health Reform. He also named Dr. Jeanne Lambrew, who worked on health policy at [...]

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America’s family caregivers would have earned about $375 billion in 2007, had they been paid for their services. This is up $25 billion from 2006. “Valuing the Invaluable: The Economic Value of Family Caregiving,’’ a report from the AARP Public Policy Institute, estimates that 34 million American adults provide an average of 21 hours a [...]

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Economist Randy Albelda recently made the case in the Boston Globe that caring for those who cannot care for themselves is part of the foundation of a civil society. Investing in health care, said Albelda, is as vital to our long-term economic health as airports, highways, wind turbines, and energy-retrofitted buildings – the things specifically [...]

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