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The United States Department of Labor (DOL) holds significant discretion over how the companionship exemption is interpreted and applied in the workplace. Under the DOL's current interpretation, the companionship exemption applies to most home care workers (also known as personal care assistants), allowing their employers—unless they are in a state with regulations superseding those at the ...
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers [2] in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada. [3] SEIU is focused on organizing workers in three sectors: healthcare (over half of members work in the healthcare field), including hospital, home care and nursing home workers; public services (government employees, including law ...
SEIU 775 now represents over 45,000 home care and nursing home workers in Washington and Montana. The majority of union members are independent providers of non-medical, in-home care for disabled and elderly persons receiving Medicaid. The union also represents home care worker employees of several Washington home care agencies with State ...
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Outpatient elder care. Home care (also referred to as domiciliary care, social care, or in-home care) is supportive care provided in the home.Care may be provided by licensed healthcare professionals who provide medical treatment needs or by professional caregivers who provide daily assistance to ensure the activities of daily living (ADLs) are met.
“Skills for Care monthly monitoring data show that the vacancy rate in home care has continued to rise and at the end of December 2021 was 12.6%, the highest it has ever been.”
Intermediate care facility (ICF) staffing are direct service personnel and managerial personnel responsible for professional staff (including nurses and therapists), and for in house and community programming from transportation to grocery shopping, recreational activities, personal care and mobility, communication and home activities, and so ...
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc. (PHI) is a non-profit organization based in New York City that works to improve long-term services and supports for elders and individuals with disabilities, as well as improve the job quality of the direct-care workers who provide those services whether in people's homes or in nursing homes and other institutional facilities.