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The Retooling the Health Care Workforce for an Aging America Act, originally introduced by Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI), chairman of the Special Committee on Aging, has picked up two new sponsors in the Senate — Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Bob Casey (D-PA), and a lead sponsor in the House of Representatives — Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). [...]

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As President Obama’s first term in office begins, we ask that he keep in mind Pauline Beck, a home care aide he spent a day with while on the campaign trail in the summer of 2007.

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While making house calls for the past decade on Roosevelt Island, a small planned community famous for the aerial cable car that connects it to Manhattan,  one doctor has come to understand the importance of direct-care workers. Dr. Jack Resnick believes that home-based care, especially with one doctor, looking out for us throughout our lives, [...]

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PHI has released a fact sheet on Michigan’s direct-care workforce (pdf). The eight-page document reveals that while demand for workers  is at a historic high and growing, the labor pool is shrinking and poor job quality is adding to the difficulty of attracting and keeping new workers. These factors, warns the fact sheet, are leading [...]

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Direct-care workers in Michigan could keep up to $5,306 at tax time  through the state and federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). To encourage workers to take advantage of the credits, PHI Michigan has launched a campaign called “Earn, Keep, Save  MORE.”

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Dorie Seavey, PHI director of policy research, testifies in support of the Fair Home Health Care Act, a bill to extend minimum wage and overtime protection to home care workers.

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