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Understanding Direct Care Workers: A Snapshot of two of America's Most Important Jobs - Certified Nursing Assistants and Home Health Aides
03/01/2011 | Requests *Summary
This chart book highlights findings from two new federally sponsored national surveys. Both surveys represent a major advance in the data available about two of America’s most important jobs, certified nursing assistants working in nursing homes and home health aides in home health and hospice care settings. The chart book is intended to help multiple audiences understand these jobs, issues, and challenges; and establish useful benchmarks as goals toward which improvement efforts might aspire.
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Keywords
Caregiving; Recruitment and Retention; Wages and Benefits; Direct Care Work; Activities of Daily Living; Care Recipients; NHHAS; NNAS
Topic
Workforce/Direct Care
Type/Tool
Data, Reports
Source
ASPE/DALTCP
State
All States/Territories
Date Created
05/06/2011
Contact
Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy
LTCARE-L@LIST.NIH.GOV
LTCARE-L@LIST.NIH.GOV
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