Unsung Heroes: The Crucial Role and Tenuous Circumstances of Home Care Workers During Pandemic

Unsung Heroes: The Crucial Role and Tenuous Circumstances of Home Care Workers During Pandemic

Even as the pandemic took a devastating toll on health care workers and older adults in the United States, many home care workers continued to report to work and provide vital care to vulnerable people despite the health risks to themselves and their own families.

KFF’s Kaiser Health News and The John A. Hartford Foundation will be holding an interactive web event at Noon Eastern time on Tuesday, March 30 to examine the crucial roles home care workers have played for families during the pandemic as well as the challenging economics of the industry for providers and consumers alike.

KHN Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal will serve as moderator of the event, intended to be an intimate conversation about the role of home health during the COVID-19 crisis. Rosenthal draws on personal experience: Her mother, Elaine, who died last year at age 96 of suspected Covid-19, spent the final months of her life in an assisted living community, where she was cared for by aides from Senior Helpers, a provider of in-home care.

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March 24, 2021