It Is Time to Resolve the Direct Care Workforce Crisis in Long-Term Care
Nearly 4.6 million direct care workers—including personal care aides, home health aides, and nursing assistants—provide daily support to older adults and people with disabilities across a range of settings in the United States, predominantly...
Would You Stay? Rethinking Direct Care Job Quality
Would You Stay? Rethinking Direct Care Job Quality examines how poor job quality has defined the direct care job for decades, negatively impacting workers, long-term care employers, consumers, and the economy. The report also reviews...
Competitive Disadvantage: Direct Care Wages Are Lagging Behind
New data suggest that direct care wages are Lagging behind In all 50 states and DC, the direct care worker median wage is lower than the median wage for other occupations with similar entry-level...
LeadingAge Annual Meeting Student Program: Where Drive and Opportunity Come Together
Do you know any current students or recent graduates that might be interested in the field of aging services? Help them get a firsthand look at career options at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting Virtual Experience this...
NCOA Launches Falls Free CheckUp/Chequeo Contra Caídas: Bilingual Tool to Prevent One of the...
The Falls Free CheckUp/Chequeo Contra Caídas, an innovative online tool—available in both English and Spanish—that helps older adults assess their risk of falling and offers them a wealth of bilingual resources to stay safe.
The self-directed...
Did You Miss the Keynote Session with Brene Brown at the LeadingAge Virtual Annual...
It was powerful and just what providers need to hear right now. Here are a few take aways from the conversation:
Do a 2 word check in with your team before each meeting. Ask them...
The 5 Pillars of Direct Care Job Quality
To guide employers, policymakers, and industry leaders in transforming the direct care workforce, PHI’s new framework for direct care job quality includes 29 elements across five pillars: quality training, fair compensation, quality supervision and...
The Summer Enrichment Program
The Summer Enrichment Program internships are starting to post on the LeadingAge Careers page at careers.leadingage.org in the internship tab. If you have a internship opportunity in aging services, please post them on the national hub.
Workforce Matters Newsletter from LeadingAge
LeadingAge national recently published their latest Workforce Matters newsletter with information and tools to help with workforce issues. Here are the highlights:
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Survey coming in January 2021: CEOs at LeadingAge multisite...
February Workforce Matters Newsletter
Check out the latest Workforce Matters from LeadingAge National:
New Podcast Featuring Leaders in our Field: The Mentor’s Voice is LeadingAge’s latest podcast featuring stories and advice from leaders in our field.Explore Different Staffing Models...
PHI Newsletter – Quality Care Through Quality Jobs
Check out the latest PHI newsletter articles:
Direct Care Jobs Rely on Long-Term Care FinancingCOVID-19's Impact on CNAs and Residential Care AidesA Racial Justice Response to COVID-19Wage Pass-Through Laws for Direct Care Workers
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Careers in Aging Week - virtual of course - will be April 24 - May 1. More details coming soon.