Embedded gender and racial discrimination and lack of bargaining power are major causes of not only low pay for home health care aides but for many of the country’s low-wage, fast-growing occupations.

EL PASO COUNTY, CO — More people in the Pikes Peak region are becoming home health personal care aides. According to data from the Pikes Peak Workforce Center, home health and personal care aide is ...

(Reuters Health) – Preventing on-the-job injuries and providing enough work to those who want it are good first steps to retain valuable home health care aides, according to a U.S. study. Based on a ...

The health care industry is expected to add more jobs than any other sector, with employment projected to grow 18 percent in the United States from 2016 to 2026, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

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The U.S. added 130,000 jobs last month, nearly all from eldercare. Now immigration policy and Medicaid cuts are limiting who ...

Much like the rest of the country, Wisconsin has an increasing demand for home health and personal care aides as the elderly population grows. In 2023, home health and personal aides, cashiers and ...

Many Americans hope to spend their old age at home, rather than moving into a care facility. When the time comes, they rely on the more than 2 million home health aides who provide day-to-day support.

New Jersey's Department of Human Services andThe Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities have launched a website to promote job openings for aides who would work with people with disabilities and ...

Miranda Petruska never imagined working in health care. At first, she had her sights set on art school, but wanted to raise her kids in her home village of Nikolai. When she moved back she said, there ...