New Report Provides Analysis on Direct Care Workforce

A new report released by PHI provides a comprehensive, current-day analysis of the direct care workforce and offers eight concrete recommendations to improve jobs for this rapidly growing workforce of home care workers, residential care aides, and nursing assistants. 

“Caring for the Future: The Power and Potential of America’s Direct Care Workforce” presents in detail today’s direct care workforce, including an overview and statistical profile of these workers; describes how shortfalls in long-term care financing and the industry’s fractured nature harm direct care jobs; discusses the inadequate training landscape for these workers and the need to maximize their role in care delivery; and promotes the value of improving direct care job quality, which has been troubled for decades.

Click here to view the report.