As COVID 19 brought senior care and nursing homes into the spotlight, one silver lining is that our elected officials are beginning to understand the value of home care. This is important. Every year, lawmakers create new rules that affect the cost, quality and...
Let’s face it; our teenagers are much better equipped than we older adults in all things “technical”. They are used to playing video games online with crowds of people over headsets, turning in homework with google docs, and ordering food via all sorts of phone apps....
Your babysitter, housekeeper and caregiver are your employee, if not specifically someone else’s employee providing services to you through a full-fledged and licensed employer model business. The California legislature continues to make the hiring of independent...
On February 21, 2011, hundreds of employees and owners of home care agencies will gather in Sacramento to lobby against harmful home care legislation that threaten to drastically increase the costs seniors pay for in home care. One bill, SB411, co-sponsored by the...
A recent USA Today article states that there is an increase in seniors living over the age of 90. According to author Haya El Nasser “The number of people living to age 90 and beyond has tripled in the past three decades to almost 2 million and is likely to quadruple...
On December 15th, The Department of Labor announced a new proposed rule that could dramatically change how seniors and those with disabilities access home care. The proposal would eliminate a long standing federal labor code exception that allows home care agencies...
