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.

Home health aides and personal care aides are occupations that have surged in terms of employment numbers in recent years. With an entire generation of Baby Boomers growing old, the demand for home ...

Home health aides assist at-home patients with a variety of tasks, including bathing, grooming, dressing, helping with exercises and more. “The primary role is hands-on personal care,” said Shelley ...

For several years, organizations like Council on Aging that provide home and community-based long-term care services to older adults have been coping with a shortage of home health aides. These ...

Students at a training program, Cooperative Home Care Associates in New York, practice basic skills like a bed-bath on each other. Home health aides, provide basic, day-to-day support for elderly and ...

On most days around 2 p.m., home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, playing catch with his client — a man in his 30s with a developmental disability who ...

New Jersey’s home health aides are an essential lifeline for thousands of seniors and people with disabilities, assisting with bathing, dressing, meals, medications, and other daily activities. They ...

Few jobs bring you into people’s lives as intimately as providing in-home care. Diane Rogers has been a home health aide for ...