Who Will Care For Us? Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (952 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0871546396 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Direct care workers are also highly constrained by policies that specify what they are allowed to do on the job, and in some states are even prevented from simple tasks such as administering eye drops. While doctors and families alike agree that good home care aides and CNAs are crucial to the well-being of their patients, the workers report poverty-level wages, erratic schedules, exclusion from care teams, and frequent incidences of physical injury on the job. . The number of elderly and disabled adults who require assistance with day-to-day activities is expected to double over the next twenty-five years. As a result, direct care workers such as home care aides and certified nursing assistants (CNAs) will become essential to many more families. As th
Paul Osterman analyzes this complicated landscape with clarity and offers new, creative, and tractable approaches to policy.”—DAVID WEIL, dean, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, and former Wage and Hour Administrator, U.S. “Who Will Care for Us? is a comprehensive and probing work on the challenges and opportunities of building a labor force to do some of the most consequential and sensitive work in our society: providing long-term care for others. Department of Labor