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Essential but Excluded: Building Disaster Preparedness Capacity for Home Health Care Workers and Home Care Agencies

Journal Article Person-Centered Care
November 4, 2022

This special article delves into extant home care workforce research and highlights the ongoing issues in the field. This article also focuses on future policy and practice that can better support the workforce and the people for whom they care. To view original source, click here.

Key Takeaways

Being a home healthcare worker was fraught and challenging during the pandemic.
The pandemic highlighted existing issues in the home healthcare field.
There needs to be better policies and practices for home healthcare workers and the organizations that employ them.
 

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