A long-term care insurance policy could help you reduce the cost of home health aides later in life. Franziska Richter / Getty Images The majority of Americans ages 65 years old or older — or ...

Home Health Care Aides Are In Short Supply Advocates have been calling for changes in the field. They say these jobs are exhausting, with low wages, little respect and little career growth.

Most people want to age comfortably at home — meaning more and more families are looking to hire home health care aides to assist with elderly loved ones who are sick or disabled. Their services ...

The U.S. Labor Department announced plans this week to slash more than 60 regulations — including eliminating overtime and minimum wage protections for home health care workers and union organizing ...

The home health and personal care aide force is expected to grow 70%25 from 2010 to 2020; Few states come close to the 75 hours of training that Medicare requires; ...

Many health care aides were able to get insurance through the Affordable Care Act. But with the law's future uncertain, they don't know how their jobs or their doctor bills will be affected.

There were 3,083,310 home health and personal care aides in 2018, and 4,146,220 of them will be needed by 2028, representing a 34.5% increase, the report says.

And home health care aides are no exception: more than 90 percent are women. Another major factor is race: nearly 60 percent are people—i.e. mostly women—of color, led by African Americans, who work ...

Some 3.7 million people had jobs as aides in home health or personal care in 2022, with half of them earning less than $30,000 a year, or $14.51 an hour, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

Unprotected and unprepared: Home health aides who care for sick, elderly brace for covid-19. Millions of poorly paid workers are being given little support even as they risk spreading the coronavirus.

One home health aide earns $14 an hour caring for Mirtelina Morales. Her loving husband of six decades can no longer manage to feed her or move her. "It's not a job for anybody.