Home health aides help the elderly and people with chronic illnesses, disabilities, or cognitive impairments live ...

Students at a training program, Cooperative Home Care Associates in New York, practice basic skills like a bed-bath on each other. Home health aides, provide basic, day-to-day support for elderly and ...

Home health aides assist at-home patients with a variety of tasks, including bathing, grooming, dressing, helping with exercises and more. “The primary role is hands-on personal care,” said Shelley ...

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In response to the growing need for home health-care workers on Staten Island amid the continuing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and vaccine mandates, a local nonprofit will ...

Job seekers can find immediate openings in most areas across the country as companions for retirees. No medical training is required, though most applicants need to have a driver’s license and their ...

On most days around 2 p.m., home health aide Duane Crichlow can be found in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, playing catch with his client — a man in his 30s with a developmental disability who ...

Many Americans hope to spend their old age at home, rather than moving into a care facility. When the time comes, they rely on the more than 2 million home health aides who provide day-to-day support.