Better Life Lab

Crisis Conversations: for elder-care workers in the pandemic, one state (mostly) gets it right


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The coronavirus pandemic has shown just how essential are the home health workers who care for our aging loved ones. Yet many of these care workers struggle with no benefits on the brink of poverty.

Except in Washington state.

We'll hear stories of how an innovative arrangement there could be a model for the rest of the country - now and after the pandemic.

Host: Brigid Schulte, Director, Better Life Lab at New America

Guests include: Brittany Williams, a home health worker in Seattle and member SEIU 775; Peter Nazzal,

Catholic Community Services of Western Washington director of Long Term Care: and Stephen Campbell,

Data and Policy analyst with PHI and author of We Can Do Better: How our Broken Long-term Care System Undermines Care

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