Article On Home Health Care In The Us

[JJReyes]

She works at a private assisted living facility that offers independent, assisted living, and memory care for dementia patients. She worked in the assisted living section and usually had anywhere from 16-20 patients assigned to her.

Unfortunately, Arizona is considered close to the bottom in quality care for the reason you stated. The state has lax rules, which allows companies to assign one caregiver to 16-20 patients. By comparison, California law mandates no more than six patients for every one caregiver. For our Overseas Alzheimer's Care in the Philippines, the healthcare companies have agreed to either three certified nurse aides working 12 hours shifts five days a week or four per patient working 8 hours shifts. The Philippine price, which includes room and board, and medical doctor supervision, is between $1,500 to $3,500 a month.

I think home child care is now $8 to $10 an hour depending on the state. You can obtain a permit to provide care for up to 3 chilldren per adult. Since your daughter counts as one, your wife can take care of two more. Again, I don't know Arizona laws regarding this matter. Still, the earnings are potentially higher than at an assisted living facility.

[i am bob]

Part of the probem is that the local people often want too much pay. I was trying to hire for one of the stores I was managing and people were asking for more than I was paid. This carrries through to any field of work. Another part of the problem is that too many people coming out of school - especially university - expect to start off as management. We have gone from "a fair day's work for a fair wage" to "I want it all"!

I don't know about in Canada, but in the US caregivers are paid very poorly. My wife works as a caregiver and earns a whopping $9 an hour. Minimum wage in our area is $7.65. In-n-Out Burger pays $9.75 to start. Do you consider $9 an hour a fair wage for a fair day's work taking care of the elderly? I don't. When the burger joint employee makes more than caregivers, that points to a huge problem.

I agree with you... I wasn't talking about people doing the work now but rather why so many people from other countries (ie - Filipinos) are getting the Personal Health jobs rather than local people. I know of one girl who took a "Certificate Course" through a chain vocational school and expects to make $25 an hour or more in a nursing home while caring for only 1 or 2 people. Why? Because that is what the school told her she should expect for pay. Not gonna happen! I have managed some fairly large retail stores in the past and I hated the idea of asking people to state their pay expectations when submitting their resumes. But I had to because over 3/4 of those applying wanted to make over $40 an hour. Do you think Target, Sears or BestBuy pay their general staff a starting salary of $40 an hour or more? And those with University or College slates to hang? Most of them want to be a full manager within 6 months with double my pay or the company I am with isn't worth working for! Obviously many of them are still looking for work.

Once again, I wish for a return to the days of "A fair day's pay for a fair day's labour"! If the company is working your butt off, you should make more money than those who get to take their time in their daily chores - in a comparable field of course. If someone works for a service company (such as Home Health Care) and the bosses are getting rich while the workers are going broke, do what they did! Start your own company! Start a Co-op! Go independent! Things won't change unless those needing the change make it happen! But just offering a service for the same inflated price without any improvement does just one thing - raises the cost of living for everyone involved. Offer a great service at a fair price and you should enjoy the profits for years to come!