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12 steps for creating a culture of retention: A workbook for home and community-based long-term care providers. PHI. August 2008.
This workbook offers concrete steps and tools to guide agencies in developing recruitment, selection... read more
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2007 national survey of state initiatives on the direct-care workforce: Key findings. PHI and the Direct Care Workers Association of North Carolina. December 2009.
This report documents key 2007 trends in the field of workforce policy development for direct-care w... read more
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Adult learner-centered training: An introduction for educators in home and residential care. PHI. November 2008.
This 32-page guide outlines the principles of adult learner-centered training. It includes informati... read more
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A guide to creating an employer-based home health aide training program. Kahn, Karen, Peggy Powell, and Kate Moody. March 2001. PHI.
The Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute developed an eight-section manual to assist providers in p... read more
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A health care system that's good for direct-care workers is good for America. PHI. August 2009.
This fact sheet argues that the impact of national health care reform on direct-care workers will se... read more
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Cheating dignity: A direct care wage crisis in America. Dawson, Steve, Ann Kempski, and Sally Tyler. August 2001. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).
This report from AFSCME examines 1999 national and state median hourly wage and employment estimates... read more
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Collaborating to improve In-Home Supportive Services: Stakeholder perspectives on implementing California's public authorities. Heinritz-Canterbury, Janet. 2002. PHI.
This paper analyzes the four stakeholder coalition that successfully passed legislation and implemen... read more
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Comprehensive health coverage for consumer-directed home care workers; Case study: Washington State. McDonald, Ingrid J.. March 2007. Health Care for Health Care Workers.
This case study describes the establishment of a Washington State multi-employer trust, which provid... read more
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Consumer direction of personal assistance services in Medicaid: A review of four state programs. Claypool, Henry, and Molly O'Malley. March 2008. Kaiser Family Foundation .
Based on interviews with program administrators of consumer-directed programs in California, Colorad... read more
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Costs and benefits of in-home supportive services for the elderly and persons with disabilities: A California case study. Howes, Candace. May 2010. PHI.
This briefing paper focuses on California's state-funded In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program,... read more
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Coverage for Caregivers. Regan, Carol and Karen Kahn. January 2008. Long-Term Care Management, Vol. 11, Issue 1.
This article makes the case that offering health insurance for caregivers is a critical factor in ac... read more
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Coverage for caregivers: Lessons from Massachusetts health reform. PHI. October 2009.
This report examines how Massachusetts' 2006 health care reform law has affected direct-care workers... read more
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 Creating a culture of retention: A coaching approach to supervision. PHI. September 2001; Updated Novemeber 2008.
This document introduces the coaching approach to supervision through a comparison with the more fam... read more
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Direct-care healthcare workers: You get what you pay for. Dawson, Steven, and Rick Surpin. Spring 2001. Generations, Vol. 25, No.1.
The options for expanding the general labor pool will likely remain limited while the number of entr... read more
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Direct-care worker associations: Empowering workers to improve the quality of home- and community-based care. PHI and MEDSTAT for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Spring 2004. Workforce Tools, No. 3.
Professional associations for direct-care workers provide workers with opportunities to develop the... read more
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Direct care workers speaking out on their own behalf.. Nakhnikian, Elise, and Karen Kahn. January 2004. , Issue Brief No. 2. Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS) .
This issue brief provides an overview of the growing movement to encourage worker participation in e... read more
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Engaging the public workforce development system: Strategies for investing in the direct care workforce . Seavey, Dorie . January 2006. Better Jobs Better Care.
This BJBC Issue Brief explores partnerships between long-term care providers and the public workforc... read more
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Expanding coverage for caregivers: A checklist for state health reform. PHI Health Care for Health Care Workers. 2007.
This paper provides policymakers with a tool for assessing whether health care reform plans meet the... read more
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Expanding the ''registry'' concept: Creating access to care for consumers & employment for care workers. Seavey, Dorie and Hollis Turnham. January 2008. PHI.
This PowerPoint presentation reviews the context and purpose of direct-care worker registries, offer... read more
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Fall prevention awareness: Enhanced training curriculum for home health aides. PHI and the National Council on Aging. . PHI.
Uniquely designed for adult learners, the Fall Prevention Awareness training curriculum helps home h... read more
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Family care and paid care: Separate worlds or common ground?. Seavey, Dorie . May 2005. , Number 5. Better Jobs Better Care.
Featuring two real-life caregiving stories that illustrate how family and paid caregiving work toget... read more
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Finding and keeping direct care staff. PHI and the Catholic Healthcare Association. 2003.
This guide provides long-term care employers with immediate, concrete suggestions on how to find and... read more
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Getting started: A pioneering approach to culture change in long-term care organizations. Misiorski, Susan . August 2004. The Pioneer Network.
Getting Started introduces readers to the culture change journey. The introduction defines cu... read more
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Healthcare for Montanans who provide healthcare: A case study. McDonald, Ingrid J., and Tameisha Bridges. . Health Care for Health Care Workers.
This case study discusses a Montana initiative, Healthcare for Montanans Who Provide Healthcare (HCM... read more
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Health care workforce issues in Massachusetts. Frank, Barbara, and Steven L. Dawson. June 2000. Massachusetts Health Policy Forum.
This issue brief documents the dynamics of and challenges facing the long-term care labor market pr... read more
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Health coverage for direct-care workers: 2008 data update. PHI. December 2009.
This fact sheet uses data from the March Supplement of the 2009 Current Population Survey. It shows ... read more
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Health insurance coverage for direct care workers: Riding out the storm. Lipson, Debra and Carol Regan. March 2004. , Vol. 1 No. 3. Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS).
This issue brief published by the Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) initiative describes the challenges... read more
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Health insurance coverage for the home care sector: Experience from early DirigoChoice enrollment in Maine. PHI's Health Care for Health Care Workers initiative, in collaboration with Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation and the Institute for Health Policy at the University of Southern Maine's Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service.. March 2006. PHI.
This report reviews the findings of an outreach project conducted during the first six months of 200... read more
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Health reform facts 1: Workforce development and training opportunities for direct-care workers. PHI. June 2010.
This fact sheet describes numerous ways that that 2010 health reform law may have a positive impact ... read more
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Health reform facts 2: Pre-existing condition insurance plan. PHI. July 2010.
This fact sheet explains the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), a featured component of t... read more
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Health reform facts 3: Small business benefits available to eldercare/disability services employers. PHI. July 2010.
This fact sheet details several ways that national health reform, passed into law in March 2010, wil... read more
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Home care cooperatives: Worker ownership in focus. Whitaker, Julie, Stu Schneider, and Margaret Bau. February 2005. Wisconsin Long Term Care Workforce Alliance.
This paper explores the use of worker-owned home care cooperatives as a strategy to create a more st... read more
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H.R. 3582 The Fair Home Health Care Act: An analysis. PHI. October 2007.
This fact sheet provides an analysis of H.R. 3582. If passed, H.R. 3582 would amend the Fair Labor S... read more
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Illinois' direct-care workforce. PHI. July 2009.
This fact sheet gives an overview of the direct-care workforce in Illinois. Using data from the Cens... read more
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Iowa's direct-care workforce. PHI. September 2009.
This fact sheet gives an overview of the direct-care workforce in Iowa. It notes that direct-care wo... read more
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Long term care financing and the long-term care workforce crisis: Causes and solutions . Dawson, Steven. January 2003. Citizens for Long-Term Care.
This paper examines the emerging 'care gap' in long-term care and the negative impact of staff short... read more
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Maine's direct-care workforce. PHI. October 2009.
This fact sheet gives an overview of the direct-care workforce in Maine. It notes that direct-care w... read more
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Massachusetts' direct-care workforce. PHI. September 2009.
This fact sheet describes the state of direct-care workers in Massachusetts. It notes that demand fo... read more
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Michigan's care gap: Our emerging direct-care workforce crisis. Turnham, Hollis and Steven L. Dawson. April 2003. PHI.
This paper provides a detailed analysis of the direct-care workforce crisis in Michigan. In addition... read more
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Michigan's direct-care workforce. PHI. December 2008.
This fact sheet discusses the state of the direct-care workforce in Michigan and shows that while de... read more
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Multi-stakeholder coalitions: Promoting improvements in the long-term care workforce. Kahn, Karen, and Elise Nakhnikian. October 2003. , Vol. 1 No. 1. Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS).
This issue brief published by the Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) initiative describes the growing nu... read more
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New Hampshire's care gap: The healthcare workforce shortage. Crosby-Hutchinson, Rebecca. February 2001. New Hampshire Community Loan Fund.
This report of New Hampshire's Paraprofessional Healthcare Imitative claims that worker retention is... read more
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New York City's home care workforce. PHI. December 2009.
This fact sheet presents an overview of New York City's single largest occupational grouping: home c... read more
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Occupational projections for direct-care workers 2008-2018. PHI. February 2010.
This fact sheet summarizes data from the national occupational projections issued by the Bureau of L... read more
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Older direct-care workers: Key facts and trends. PHI. April 2010.
This fact sheet presents data pertaining to the aging direct-care workforce, particularly home care ... read more
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Paraprofessionals on the front lines: Improving their jobs; Improving the quality of long-term care. Wilner, Mary Ann, and Ann Wyatt. September 1998. AARP.
This background paper explores the role of paraprofessionals in long-term care, highlighting the rel... read more
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Pennsylvania's care gap: Finding solutions to the direct-care workforce crisis. Davis, Mark and Steven L. Dawson. 2003. PHI.
This paper provides an overview of the direct-care workforce crisis in Pennsylvania, exploring how d... read more
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Pennsylvania's direct-care workforce. PHI. October 2009.
This fact sheet gives an overview of the direct-care workforce in Pennsylvania. It notes that direct... read more
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Personal assistance services and direct-support workforce: A literature review. PHI. June 2003.
This paper summarizes current research on the home care, home health, and personal assistance workfo... read more
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Pioneering culture change. Misiorski, Susan. October 2003. Nursing Home Magazine, Vol. 52, No. 10. Nursing Home Long-Term Care Management.
This article provides an introduction to the culture change movement, including practical advice for... read more
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Plan, implement, study, act: Using the PHI learning cycle in Northern New England. PHI. August 2009.
This evaluation brief provides an overview of the PHI Northern New England LEADS Institute. Launched... read more
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Providing personal care services to elders and people with disabilities: A model curriculum for direct-care workers. PHI. 2009.
This 77-hour curriculum develops core competencies needed to provide person-directed care in a varie... read more
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Quality Care Partners: A case study. Kahn, Karen. August 2000. PHI.
This case study traces the early development of Quality Care Partners, a home care cooperative, and ... read more
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Quality improvement organizations: Recognizing direct-care workers' role in nursing home quality improvement. Nakhnikian, Elise. August 2004. , Issue Brief Number 4. Better Jobs Better Care.
Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) are private organizations that contract with the federal go... read more
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Recruiting quality health care paraprofessionals. PHI. 2000.
This guide provides an overview of the recruitment strategies used by the Cooperative Healthcare Net... read more
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Respectful relationships: The heart of Better Jobs Better Care. McDonald, Ingrid and Karen Kahn. March/April 2007. FutureAge, Vol. 6, No. 2 American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
This article argues that respectful relationships between direct-care workers, supervisors, and reci... read more
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Results of the 2002 national survey of state initiatives on the long-term care direct care workforce. PHI and North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. June 2002.
This report provides data on recent state-level policy efforts to address the shortage of direct-car... read more
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Results of the 2003 national survey of state initiatives on the long-term care direct-care workforce. Harmuth, Susan, and Susan Dyson. March 2004. PHI and the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Long Term Care (NCDHHS).
This is the fourth national survey of the direct-care workforce conducted by NCDHHS and PHI. It exam... read more
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Results of the 2005 national survey of state initiatives on the long-term care direct-care workforce. Harmuth, Susan, and Susan Dyson. September 2005. The National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce and the Direct Care Workers Association of North Carolina.
This is the fifth national survey of the direct-care workforce conducted by these authors. It examin... read more
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Sectoral strategies for low-income workers: Lessons from the field. Conway, Maureen, et. al.. Summer 2007. Aspen Institute.
This book describes how ''sectoral employment development'' programs address systemic labor market i... read more
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State-by-state projected demand for new direct-care workers, 2006-16. PHI. December 2009.
This chart presents occupational employment projections for direct-care workers in all 50 states, as... read more
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State chart book on wages for personal and home care aides, 1999-2008. PHI. July 2009.
This chart book provides information, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on the wage... read more
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State chart book on wages for personal and home care aides, 1999-2009. . July 2010. PHI.
This chart book compiles the median wages for personal and home care aides in each state between 199... read more
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State initiatives to strengthen the direct support workforce. Edelstein, Steve, and Carrie Blakeway. Fall/Winter 2007/2008. Impact, Vol. 20, No. 2. Institute on Community Integration, Research and Training Center on Community Living.
This article describes innovative projects in four states-- Kentucky, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, ... read more
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State nurse aide training requirements, 2009. . 2009. PHI.
This chart summarizes state requirements for nurse aide training programs that go beyond the federal... read more
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State wage pass-through legislation: An analysis. PHI and the Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS). April 2003. Workforce Strategies, No. 1.
A wage pass-through is an additional allocation of funds provided through Medicaid reimbursement for... read more
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Strategies for promoting and improving the direct service workforce: Applications to home and community-based services. Scala, Elise, Leslie Hendrickson, and Carol Regan. May 2008. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy.
This compendium of three papers on the direct service workforce address strategies for improving the... read more
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Subsidizing health insurance coverage for the home care workforce in two Wisconsin counties: An analysis of options. Bridges, Tameshia and Carol Regan. February 2007. Health Care for Health Care Workers.
This report describes a provider employer organization (PEO) in Wisconsin that makes affordable heal... read more
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Supervision: A tool for building quality support relationships. A seminar for supervisors of direct-care workers supporting consumers with disabilities. PHI. 2005.
This one-day training curriculum, prepared by the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI), was d... read more
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The business case for investing in staff retention: Can you afford not to?. Farrell, David and Steven Dawson. March/April 2007. FutureAge American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
This article looks at the cost-saving benefits to businesses of reducing high turnover rates among d... read more
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The Cooperative Home Care Associates: A case study of a sectoral employment development approach. Inserra, Anne, Maureen Conway, and John Rodat. February 2002. Aspen Institute.
This case study examines Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) as a sectoral employment developmen... read more
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The cost of frontline turnover in long-term care. Dorie Seavey. October 2004. Better Jobs Better Care .
This report details information known about the cost of turnover among direct-care workers. The aut... read more
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The home health aide: Scarce resource in a competitive marketplace. Dawson, Steven, and Rick Surpin. Winter 2000. Care Management Journal, Vol. 2, No. 4.
Although direct-care staff are the very point where home care 'touches the client,' our system of ca... read more
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The launch of the Direct Care Alliance: Proceedings from the June 2000 conference. PHI. October 2000.
This report summarizes the conference proceedings at which the Direct Care Alliance (DCA), a new org... read more
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The need for monitoring the long-term care direct service workforce and recommendations for data collection. Edelstein, Steven, and Dorie Seavey. February 2009. National Direct Service Workforce Resource Center.
This paper discusses the state of the direct service workforce and its role in long-term care system... read more
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The origins of Better Jobs Better Care . Stone, Robyn I. and Steven L. Dawson . July 2008. The Gerontologist , Vol 48, No I.
This article presents the history and origins of the Better Jobs Better Care initiative, a multista... read more
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The right start: Preparing direct-care workers to provide home and community-based care. PHI and MEDSTAT for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 2004. Workforce Tools , No 2.
This publication outlines standard training practices for home- and community-based workers, identif... read more
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The role of training in improving the recruitment and retention of direct-care workers in long-term care. PHI & The Institute for the Future of Aging Services. January 2005.
This paper provides a detailed overview of federal and state training requirements for direct-care w... read more
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The SEIU 775 long-term care training, support & career development network: A blue print for the future. McDonald, Ingrid and Glen Scott Davis. February, 2007. PHI and 1199 SEIU Training and Education Fund.
This paper describes the development and vision for an SEIU-initiated network, which will provide tr... read more
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Toward a stable and experienced caregiving workforce. Wilner, Mary Ann. Fall 2000. Generations, Vol. 24, No.3.
This article addresses the reasons that it is increasingly difficult for consumers to find available... read more
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Training Quality Home Care Workers. PHI. August 2003. A PHI Technical Series Publication
A description of PHI's approach to developing a stable, competent workforce. The five key components... read more
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Vermont's direct-care workforce. PHI. March 2009.
This fact sheet discusses the state of the direct-care workforce in Vermont and shows that while dem... read more
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Victories for home health care workers: Home care workers get organized . Schneider, Stu. September/October 2003. Dollars & Sense, Issue 249.
This article outlines home health workers' efforts to organize in California, Oregon, and Washington... read more
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We are the roots. Glasser, Ruth, and Jeremy Brecher. 2002. University of California Center for Cooperatives.
This book tells the compelling story of Cooperative Home Care Associates, a highly successful worker... read more
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Welfare to work: An employers' dispatch from the front. Cooperative Healthcare Network. January 1998. PHI.
From their experience employing single mothers from the inner-city as home health aides, the authors... read more
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Who are direct-care workers?. PHI. February 2010.
This fact sheet gives an overview of the direct-care workforce, describing job titles, responsibilit... read more
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Who will care for mother tomorrow?. Van Kleunen, Andy, and Mary Ann Wilner. Spring 2000. Journal of Aging and Social Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2/3.
This essay offers a closer look of paraprofessional caregivers and the nature of their jobs, summar... read more
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Why workforce development should be part of the long-term care quality debate. Stone, Robyn I., Steven L. Dawson, and Mary Harahan. October 2003. American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging .
Arguing that the quality of long-term care-i.e., resident clinical and quality of life outcomes-is s... read more
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Women are the backbone of American caregiving. Dawson, Steven L.. March/April 2010. Aging Today, Vol. 31 No. 2. American Society on Aging.
This article describes the overwhelmingly female direct-care workforce in the U.S. -- a workforce th... read more
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Women caring for women: Coverage is critical to care. PHI. April 2008.
This fact sheet notes that nine out of ten direct-care workers, as well as two-thirds of direct-care... read more
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Written statement on H.R. 3582: the Fair Home Health Care Act. Seavey, Dorie. October 2007.
This written statement was delivered to the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Workforce Prot... read more
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