Financial hardship is widespread among health care workers, particularly in direct care roles, amid a workforce crisis and challenging job conditions. Direct care workers face the highest levels of ...

The U.S. added 130,000 jobs last month, nearly all from eldercare. Now immigration policy and Medicaid cuts are limiting who is willing or able to do this job.

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The hardest part of Culix Wibonele's first job in long-term care was not getting injured. Originally from Kenya, Wibonele worked as a certified nursing assistant in Atlanta in 2014. She went to the ...

Direct care workers (DCWs) are vital to home care services, supporting over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. However, they face economic challenges due to the state’s low reimbursement rates for Personal ...

A guidance originally curated to help Baltimore-area long-term care providers uplift and upskill their direct caregivers also can be applied by operators nationwide to build a respected and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Fran Mancl was thinking ahead. A certified nursing assistant at a nursing home, he wasn’t making enough ...

A study finds one of Iowa’s largest and most in-demand workforces has seen a meager increase in its average pay over the past decade and a half. Di Findley, executive director of Iowa CareGivers, says ...