Track 5: Elder Care – Home Health Care Workforce: Improving Wages and Benefits
Start Date
11-18-2016 1:00 PM
End Date
11-18-2016 2:30 PM
Description
Home care workers provide an invaluable service of care to our families and communities as they care for our seniors, yet they struggle to care for their own families because of low wages. Low wages perpetuate high burnout and turnover, strain the home care system and jeopardize these critical services. This panel will discuss the issue of home health care wages and benefits in terms of the policies of the US Department of Labor and the experiences of home health care providers in Massachusetts and Maine.
Moderator:
Amy Gallant, State Director for Advocacy and Outreach, AARP Maine
Panelists:
Laura Fortman, Deputy Administrator, Wage and House Division, Department of Labor
Pat Kelleher, Executive Director, Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts
Mollie Baldwin, Home Care Alliance of Maine
Track 5: Elder Care – Home Health Care Workforce: Improving Wages and Benefits
Home care workers provide an invaluable service of care to our families and communities as they care for our seniors, yet they struggle to care for their own families because of low wages. Low wages perpetuate high burnout and turnover, strain the home care system and jeopardize these critical services. This panel will discuss the issue of home health care wages and benefits in terms of the policies of the US Department of Labor and the experiences of home health care providers in Massachusetts and Maine.
Moderator:
Amy Gallant, State Director for Advocacy and Outreach, AARP Maine
Panelists:
Laura Fortman, Deputy Administrator, Wage and House Division, Department of Labor
Pat Kelleher, Executive Director, Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts
Mollie Baldwin, Home Care Alliance of Maine
Comments
Learn more about Conference Tracks and Panels from five different issue areas here: http://scholarworks.umb.edu/newomenspolicyconf/2016-conferencetracksandpanels.pdf.
Breakout Sessions will take place in 5 different locations. You will stay in your session area for both session, coffee breaks will be served at your location.