Homemaker-home health aides--an untapped resource.
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In response to concerns regarding the negative effect that competency-evaluation testing might have on the attrition and recruitment of homemaker-home health aides, the home health industry of New Jersey offers an inservice education module--training supervisors to prepare homemaker-home health aides for testing.
New York City's Partners in Care, a subsidiary of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, has implemented several innovative programs involving education, training, and followup support for their homemaker-home health aides providing care to patients with HIV or AIDS. These programs have proved essential to the development of a successful community care program for persons with AIDS.
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"The home care industry is where the nursing home industry was 20 years ago--growing rapidly and unregulated," reported The Washington Post in 1986, a consensus shared by legislators, regulators, consumers, and providers. In response, the Foundation for Hospice and Homecare initiated the national certification project, which seeks to establish a national standard for the basic preparation of homemaker-home health aides.
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Individuals with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia frequently require little more than custodial care, which can often be performed by a family caregiver. As a result, homemaker-home health aides, engaged primarily for respite care, enter situations where there is little to do in terms of traditional homemaker-home health aide duties. In an effort to increase job satisfaction for employees and provide a benefit for clients, AL-C*A*R*E has developed an in-home therapeutic activities program for demented clients that is conducted in each client's home by the homemaker-home health aide.
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