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Less than a year after convening their National Workforce Action Alliance to get to the bottom of the labor shortage, the nation’s two major home care organizations this week released a report  offering...

A scarcity of home care workers since the pandemic plus historically low wages equals a serious problem. Not only are home care agencies struggling to fill their employee rosters, they’re facing an aging...

Want to give your legislator a piece of your mind? You’ll have your chance next week, when the National Association for Home Care & Hospice holds its Advocacy Day in Washington, DC.

If you want to know your employees’ commitment to their jobs, don’t ask them if their salaries are fair, ask them about purpose and connection. Purpose in their work predicts whether your employees...

Books and reading are integral to wellness and a lifeline to people who are living in long-term care settings.

If anyone has the answer to the home care workforce shortage, they should be in line to win $64,000 (much more due to inflation) because that, my friends, continues to be the big question.

The publicity surrounding actor Bruce Willis and his diagnosis of dementia have put this progressive disease back into the limelight.

The best things come to those who wait. That old Heinz ketchup slogan may be an apt description for the recent re-introductions of legislation and funding for home- and community-based services.

It’s crucial to remember that in order to be an effective caregiver, you need to take care of yourself as well. In fact, you’re going to be better equipped to take on challenges and maintain a...

Look out, home care. Private equity has its eyes on you. That was one of the messages of a recent report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit watchdog group.