Personal care aides will get a high-powered focus Monday, when the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging and the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) host a briefing on training standards.

Home health and personal care aides are one of the largest groups of health care workers in the US, with nearly three million people providing direct care for people with serious illness living in the ...

PLATTSBURGH — Nineteen more North Country residents join the ranks of the 40 personal care aides, who have graduated from training programs held by North Country Home Services. They join a team of ...

Of more than two dozen personal care attendants interviewed by the Star Tribune in the past two months, only one had received more than an hour's training from their agencies. Many said they appealed ...

{mosads}As low-wage, “unskilled” workers, PCAs don’t get much respect. With a median wage of $9.49 an hour, PCAs are among the lowest paid workers in America. As a result, more than half rely on ...

Carol Rodat is the New York policy director for PHI, formerly known as the Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute. September 25, 2014 All humans are mortal, but we have the power to improve how we die ...

Previous research has documented shortages of personal care aides who provide Medicaid home and community-based services, but there are few detailed geographic data to determine the areas of greatest ...

As we age, become frail, and need personal assistance, we will increasingly require paid aides to help us with routine daily activities, such as bathing, dressing, or cooking. Demand for those aides ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Home health care continues to be a growing field of work, and some Springfield high school students have gotten a head start on their careers. Students from Blessed ...