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The newest additions to PHI’s National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce: The need for national training standards/guidelines for privately paid geriatric home caregivers A synthesis of direct service workforce demographics and challenges across intellectual/ developmental disabilities, aging, physical disabilities, and behavioral health Home and community-based services: Public policies to improve access, costs, and quality [...]

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On March 2, President Obama announced his picks for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National White House Office for Health Reform.  Kathleen Sebelius, the governor of Kansas and an early Obama supporter, will lead HHS if confirmed by the Senate, while Nancy-Ann DeParle will head White House health reform efforts.

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This is the first story in a two-part series about the unique relationship shared between a young man and his young caregiver (go to part two). Nathan and Dylan could be any two dudes in their early 20s, hanging out beneath band posters in their hoodie jackets and ironic T-shirts, chatting away their afternoons about [...]

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Steve Shields’ journey from heading up a long-shore drilling operation in the Middle East to becoming a key player in the eldercare culture change movement began with the loss of his mother. In the mid-80s, his mother had advanced Alzheimer’s and his father had Parkinson’s, two “headline diseases,” as he calls them. So, Shields went [...]

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