Those who care for our Family members Can hardly care for theirs. Why?
No matter the setting in which they work are low-paid, often without health insurance and confronted with back-breaking labor and challenging clients with complex medical needs.
These caregivers provide the most intimate care imaginable to frail and vulnerable people. We depend on them to give competent, compassionate attention to our grandparents—and to us as we age. Their clients’ lives are literally in their hands. Read more
Caregiver Crisis: 5 Million Workers Needed
Bob Goddard(AKA Yang) Editor of the CNA Edge
Recently Published: 60 Caregiver Issues: PHI and the Caregiver Shortage
I worked in long-term care for 35 years, 25 of those as a caregiver. While I’ve witnessed a great deal of progress in that time, I believe there is still a long way to go. From my perspective, the biggest problems in long-term care are created by the unreasonably heavy workloads and grossly inadequate pay of direct care workers. Meanwhile, the system routinely squanders precious resources in an effort to paper over the profound gap that exists between the realities faced by front line workers and the lofty expectations of those who set and enforce standards.
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