The Milbank Quarterly Article: Long-Term Care Reforms Should Begin With Paid Home Care Providers
The Milbank Quarterly has published an article, "Long-Term Care Reforms Should Begin With Paid Home Care Providers."
The article discusses the growing need and demand for paid home caregivers. "However, while bolstering supports to the nearly 20% of adults or 53 million people engaged in family caregiving is politically appealing, it does not address the need to support the formal care workforce that enables people with long-term care needs to obtain care in the setting they prefer—their homes. Over the past decade, Medicaid substantially invested in home care over nursing home care, but even today too much is being spent on institutional care."
The article lists and elaborates on three direct steps and three indirect steps that can be taken immediately to address structural problems in the formal home care workforce. One of the direct steps the authors recommend is to require all Medicaid and/or Medicare certified providers to pay their long-term care workers a minimum of $18 per hour.
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