Looking for Homecare Workers to Interview

I am a veteran journalist working on a book on aides to the elderly, (homecare workers, home health aides) to describe their work and their lives. If you are an aide who has an interesting story and wants to tell it, I would like to hear it. I do not need to use your real name, but I do need to interview you over multiple days, at times and places that are convenient for you. If you have friends and or relatives in the same field, that would be particularly helpful. Please pm me. Thanks!


Are you including anything from the elderly person/family's perspective.   Some are great, but I found my neighbor stuck outside in her wheelchair while the aide gabbed on the phone.  Another aide smoked heavily, even though it was not in the house, it can't be good for an elderly person in poor health..smoke would drift in through windows, get on the aides clothes.  She would also walk off to the store every night and leave the person unattended once she was in bed--i don't know if that was okay with the family or not.  Once an aide called for an ambulance but couldn't say why because she didn't speak English at all..and the patient couldn't speak for herself.   
On the other hand, I knew a great CNA at a nursing home I visited..very caring, treated the residents like family.


Have you read the heart wrenching article in the 4/11 issue of the "New Yorker" about the lives of Filipino caregivers in NYC?  Apparently, many of these women live in Woodside, Queens, so it might be a good idea to place a call for interviews at some of the establishments in that area.  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/11/the-sacrifices-of-an-immigrant-caregiver


Yes, that was a great article! I'm looking for more local people to talk to. @jmitw, what awful stories!



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