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PHI Launches ‘The National Direct Care Workforce Resource Center’

PHI Launches ‘The National Direct Care Workforce Resource Center’

by Robert Espinoza | Jun 25, 2020

This article originally appeared on the PHI blog. A new online resource aims to strengthen the evidence base on the direct care workforce by gathering and centralizing the various studies, reports, and other resources that have been published about these workers—and...
Let’s Pause to Celebrate a Historic Win for Direct Care Workers

Let’s Pause to Celebrate a Historic Win for Direct Care Workers

by Robert Espinoza | Apr 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered our way of living while putting enormous pressures on the health and long-term care sectors, including the direct care workforce. Epidemiologists are predicting that it will continue to worsen in the months ahead,...
Direct Care Workers Can Address Social Isolation and Loneliness

Direct Care Workers Can Address Social Isolation and Loneliness

by Robert Espinoza | Apr 9, 2020

This article originally appeared on the PHI blog. Illustration by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay A remarkable though unsettling new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has drawn attention to the extensive harm that social isolation and...
7 Reasons We Need the ‘Caring for the Future’ Report Series

7 Reasons We Need the ‘Caring for the Future’ Report Series

by Robert Espinoza | Jan 30, 2020

Last week, PHI released an urgent, new report on the direct care workforce. It’s Time to Care: A Detailed Profile of America’s Direct Care Workforce provides a thorough overview of the direct care workforce (including key concepts and definitions), an analysis of how...
A New Project Aims to Make Residential Care More LGBT-Friendly

A New Project Aims to Make Residential Care More LGBT-Friendly

by Robert Espinoza | Jun 13, 2019

This article originally appeared on the PHI blog. Two months after my mother entered a nursing home at age 73, she made a firm request to the home’s administration: add a Spanish-language channel to the lineup being offered throughout the facility. They obliged,...
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