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Direct-care health care workers: you get what you pay for
- Authors:
- DAWSON Steven L., SURPIN Rick
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.23-28.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
The long-term care system in the United States long ago structured itself on the presumptions of a seemingly endless supply of low-incomes individuals (usually women, and disproportionately women of colour) willing to work as certified nurse's aides, home health aids, and personal care attendants. Both providers and consumer presumed that these workers would always be available to offer care and companionship in long-term care settings - despite low-quality jobs that kept them working, but poor. Now, however, direct-care staffing vacancies are spreading throughout nursing homes and home car agencies across the country. The very future of the industry now rests on an ability to attract direct-care workers within an increasingly competitive environment. The authors argue that in order to survive, let alone provide high-quality care, the long-term care system must restructure and must significantly improve the quality of paraprofessional employment.
The effects of changing values on the provision of long-term care
- Authors:
- LONGINO Charles F., POLIVKA Larry
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.64-68.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article asks what the long-term-care workforce in the USA will look like in the future. This depends upon the changing values on which long-term care itself is based. Argues that there are some major changes under way that may frame long-term care in the new ways in the future, thereby affecting both workforce and resources.