While it is unclear how many home care aides work 24-hour shifts, there were 17,780 New York City residents who received Medicaid-funded, live-in care in 2019, according to 1199SEIU.

Home health aides are asking New York state for a raise. They say the current minimum wage is not a living wage for caregivers, and as a result, there is a critical shortage.

Prospective home care workers in Washington state face several challenges to becoming certified, potentially leading to a worsening shortage of caregivers for a growing population that needs care.

There isn't a centralized workplace, and the goal for the state is creating and retaining a professional group of home care aides to meet the needs of what is an ever increasing population of ...

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, alleges that in January 2018, Stewart noticed that Somali candidates taking the home-care-aide test were “failing the knowledge exam at an unusually ...