Higher wages, better training and flexibility are keys to growing home care economy, policy makers say

Home care workers must be better paid, better trained and more flexible in their skills as they emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the message Thursday during a webinar about strengthening the direct care workforce. The nonpartisan research group Mathematica hosted the presentation.

Policy makers and experts on aging said the pandemic is providing an unprecedented opportunity for states and service providers to strengthen the care economy, which needs an additional 4 million workers by the end of the decade.

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