COVID-19 has demonstrated the essential role of home care services in supporting
community-dwelling older and disabled individuals through a public health emergency. As …

Background: Despite providing frequent care to heart failure (HF) patients, home health care
workers (HHWs) are generally considered neither part of the health care team nor the family …

Purpose Despite a rapidly growing need for home health aides (HHAs), turnover rates are
high. While this is driven in large part by the demanding nature of their work and low wages …

Background: Despite their unique contributions to heart failure (HF) care, home healthcare
workers (HHWs) have unmet educational needs and many lack HF caregiving self-efficacy …

Purpose While rates of family caregiving and paid caregiving are increasing, how often they
occur together (“shared care”) and whether utilization varies geographically are unknown …

This study examines the unique challenges facing rural home care workers. Semi-structured
interviews were undertaken between July 2021 and February 2022 with 23 participants that …

This study examines caregiver networks, including size, composition, and stability, and their
associations with the likelihood of hospitalization and skilled-nursing facility (SNF) …

Home health aides (HHAs) provide care to many adults with heart failure (HF) in the home.
As the demand for HHAs increases, there is a need to promote HHAs' job satisfaction and …

Despite the potential of paid caregivers (eg, home health aides and other home care
workers) to improve their clients' health-related outcomes, paid caregivers are rarely …

Older adults with low incomes experience disproportionate rates of cognitive and functional
impairment and an elevated risk of nursing home admission. Home health aides (HHAs) …