Family caregivers cannot do all things all the time. Recognizing when you need outside help is good for you and your loved one. What’s the difference between types of in-home care workers? Personal Care Assistants (PCAs) are not licensed and have varying levels of experience and training. They serve as helpers and companions — providing conversation, bathing and […]
Do you know who is going to care for you when you are old and frail? By current standards, it’s likely to be a middle-aged immigrant woman, with maybe a high school education and little if any training, making $20,000 a year. And that’s if you are lucky. If you live in rural America, you […]
DESPITE GOOD NEWS IN recent weeks about the future of health care spending, a daunting reality remains: The projections may turn out to be true for the next decade, but in the more-distant future, what can be done as Americans get older? “I cannot emphasize enough the budgetary problems facing the U.S.,” warns Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president […]
Some 80 million people will be seniors by 2050. Our national home-care infrastructure isn’t close to ready. At 6 a.m. on a winter morning in Ridgewood, N.Y., a woman I’ll call Valia leaned on her kitchen counter, drinking black tea and packing a giant purse. She wore her blond-gray hair in a bun and pulled […]
Home care providers are increasingly turning away from traditional marketing and ad services to find new clients and generate revenue. In 2017, providers favored Internet marketing that leveraged search engine optimization (SEO), or ways for consumers to best find care providers on their own. To read more please click here