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Richard Schweid
The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home health care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people—almost always women—willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller. The Caring Class takes readers inside the reality of
Autor:
Richard Schweid
'By the second or third day that you're homeless, in the car with all your clothes, your pots and pans, everything, having to wash yourself in a public rest room, you logically start to feel dirty. You prefer to use the drive-through [at fast-food re
Autor:
Richard Schweid
Vintage U.S.-made cars on the streets of Havana provide a common representation of Cuba. Journalist Richard Schweid, who traveled throughout the island to research the story of motor vehicles in Cuba today and yesterday, gets behind the wheel and beh
Autor:
Richard Schweid
Journalist Richard Schweid first learned the strange facts of the freshwater eel's life from a fisherman in a small Spanish town just south of Valencia.'The eeler who explained the animal's life cycle to me did so as he served up an eel he had just t
Autor:
Richard Schweid
Publikováno v:
The Caring Class
This chapter examines the home health aides' (HHAs) mantra: “observe, record, and report” (O.R.R.). At the end of each shift, Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) aides filed an automated report by telephone, pressing numerals to respond to re
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0003
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0003
Autor:
Richard Schweid
This chapter addresses how Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), since its inception in 1985, had offered benefits to all its home health aides (HHAs), whether members of the cooperative or not. However, a persistent complaint from class graduates
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0006
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0006
Autor:
Richard Schweid
Publikováno v:
The Caring Class
This chapter discusses the training and working conditions of home health aides (HHAs). The largest home care agency franchisers employ tens of thousands of HHAs. Home care is a lucrative business, and part of that profitability is based on keeping w
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0002
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0002
Autor:
Richard Schweid
The number of elderly and disabled Americans in need of home health care is increasing annually, even as the pool of people — almost always women — willing to do this job gets smaller and smaller. This book takes readers inside the reality of hom
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d174cd095e67aec35820a35d5b45a454
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.001.0001
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.001.0001
Autor:
Richard Schweid
Publikováno v:
The Caring Class
This chapter explains that while immigrants play an important role across the health care spectrum, a federally funded 2004 report found that their numbers were greatest among home care workers. Sensitivity to cultural differences will likely need to
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0007
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0007
Autor:
Richard Schweid
This introductory chapter provides an overview of home health care in the United States. Most Americans over sixty-five want to grow old at home, but the reality is that to do so, the majority of them will eventually need someone to help with what ar
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https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0001
https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754104.003.0001