NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 6 results Save | Export
Empowerment and Constraint: Design of a Homecare Worker Training Program
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Amber Gallup; Judith Balazs Tomasson; Vanessa Svihla – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2018
A worker education center in California requested the development of a job training pilot program for 6,000 state-remunerated homecare workers. These workers provide personal care services to Medicaid-eligible adults over 65 years of age and to adults with disabilities, enabling them to remain living at home. In recognition of the homecare…
Descriptors: Job Training, Program Design, Home Health Aides, Caregiver Training
Valuing Home and Child Care Workers: Policies and Strategies That Support Organizing, Empowerment, and Prosperity
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Lieberman, Abbie; Loewenberg, Aaron; Love, Ivy; Robertson, Cassandra; Tesfai, Lul – New America, 2021
From February to April, New America conducted over 30 interviews with experts, care providers, and union representatives, focusing on three states. This report outlines key considerations for improving care worker job quality through organizing. We also include case studies on care worker organizing in California, Illinois, Washington, and the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care Occupations, Home Health Aides, Caregiver Attitudes
Retention of Paid Related Caregivers: Who Stays and Who Leaves Home Care Careers?
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Benjamin, A. E.; Matthias, Ruth E.; Kietzman, Kathryn; Furman, Walter – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The use of consumer-directed services is expected to grow in coming years, and paying family and friends is a key element of these home-based services. The goal of this study was to understand the careers of these "related workers" (family and friends) and their potential role in the long-term care workforce. Design and Methods:…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Home Health Aides, Careers, Labor Turnover
Love, Money, or Flexibility: What Motivates People to Work in Consumer-Directed Home Care?
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Howes, Candace – Gerontologist, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of wages and benefits (relative to other jobs available to workers), controlling for personal characteristics, on the recruitment and retention of providers working in a consumer-directed home care program. Design and Methods: I used the results of focus groups to design a survey…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Home Health Aides, Motivation, Wages
Federal and State Actions Needed To Overcome Problems in Administering the Title XX Program. Report to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States.
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1980
The results of a reivew by the United States General Accounting Office (GAO), this paper examines the Title XX Program of the Social Security Act and makes suggestions for its improvement. The Title XX Program provides funds to states to enable them to tailor social services programs to fit the needs of local communities. Such services are…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Community Services, Contracts, Federal Programs
The Quest for Caregivers: Helping Seniors Age with Dignity.
PDF on ERIC Download full text
California State Dept. of Employment Development, Sacramento. – 2001
There is a potential crisis in caring for the elderly in California as the over-65 population is expected to double by 2020 and several demographic dynamics a lower growth rate in the population segment of women aged 24-54 that traditionally care for seniors; increasing participation of women in the workforce who have traditionally been at-home…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Caregiver Role, Caregiver Training, Caregivers