1 million immigrants work in direct care, one in four.
The country faces a severe shortage in home health aides. With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 each day, an even more serious shortfall lies ahead, according to Paul Osterman, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. He predicts a...National News
The American population aged 65 and older is expected to more than double from 46 million today to more than 98 million by 2060.
This growth, along with the increasing number of people with disabilities and dementia in a crisis of housing affordability, will have profound public health and housing implications...National News
As 75 million "Baby Boomers" age, the issues become larger and more difficult.
State and federal law require that serious cases of abuse in nursing homes be turned over to the police. More than one-quarter of serious cases of nursing home abuse are not reported to the police, according to an alert released Monday morning by the...