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Home Care Aides Aging With Their Clients

Published on Thu Oct 25, 2012

You may worry about the aging of your aide workers, but that's just how your clients may like it.More than a quarter of aides are 55 or older, a share expected to rise to a third by 2020, reported National Public Radio in its Morning Edition broadcast. The show profiled an 80-year-old aide taking care of an 86-year-old patient."A number of our clients will ask for a more mature worker," Marla Lahat, who heads Home Care Partners in Washington, D.C., told the program. "Sometimes they're a little bit afraid of the younger generation, and they know that a worker that's closer to their age is somebody that they feel more comfortable with and more trusting."Older workers have lower turnover, the segment added.
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