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Abstract: 

This multipart article discusses the challenges of providing the elderly with affordable, quality home healthcare assistance and the government’s methods of regulating the industry. The earlier installment discussed the Olmstead requirement that states provide services to allow elderly and disabled people to live in the community rather than in an institution and provide basic assistance with the costs of such care. The previous installment also briefly explored one means of raising the quality of care given to elderly by home healthcare workers— that is, by regulating the agencies and criminalizing elder abuse and fraud. This installment looks at other means; specifically, improving the benefits and wages for home healthcare aides, which would, in turn, would raise the quality of the healthcare-aide workforce and, therefore, improve the quality of their skills and care.

Keywords: improving homecare industry; improving the benefits and wages for home healthcare aides

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