home help for the elderly

• Aarp and Family Caregivers Call On Governor Spitzer for Help to Keep the Elderly at Home

To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Luci de Haan, +1-212-407-3718, or Bill Ferris, +1-518- 447-6712, both of AARP

• U.S. Newswire
• October 17, 2007

• Rcam's Auction for Action Will Raise Money for Elderly Housing

LEEDS -- The Rural Community Action Ministries will hold its first Auction for Action on Saturday, March 26, at the Leeds Community Church, 23 Church Hill Road. The auction will raise money to help renovate a newly-acquired home for elderly residents living in the 13 different towns in Central Maine served by RCAM. For more than 40 years, RCAM has provided services to the vulnerable and rural families for towns within the counties of Oxford, Androscoggin and Kennebec. They provide family homeless shelters; they support and maintain 13 food banks. RCAM coordinates volunteers to help outreach services like transportation to medial treatments and other appointments and monitor home repair needs for safety and other health factors for the elderly and disabled.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• March 24, 2011

• 2010: A Year of Balance Between Spending and Support

When we return to Augusta in January, the Legislature will begin the process of re-balancing the budget. As with past recessions, government revenues dropped at the very time the need for government services -- like job retraining, unemployment assistance, help with housing, food and health care -- increased. Balancing the budget will require reducing or eliminating important programs that Maine people rely on. The simple reality of this recession is that less money is available to educate our children, provide home care for the elderly, help the disabled, invest in initiatives that grow our economy and other essential services.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• February 10, 2010

• Caring for Parents - Mystifying Maze -- Families Tending to Elderly Relatives Challenged to Find, Sort Through Available Help

NASHVILLE - It's a challenge facing more families as America ages: providing elderly parents, grandparents and others with the care and help they need for daily living - at home. These are the "frail elderly" who need some help - maybe with getting around, getting dressed, bathed or with their meals and medicine - but don't need the 24-hour care of nursing homes or other skilled-care institutions.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• October 16, 2007

• Aging and Caring in the Home: Regulating Paid Domesticity in the Twenty-First Century

Introduction. II. On Aging and Caring. III. The Historical Legal Link Between Domestic Service and Home Care. A. Domestic Service: A Legal Outcast. B. Reflections on the Exclusion. IV. The Fair Labor Standards ACT: Home-Care Workers as Companions. A. The Domestic Service Exemption and the 1974 Amendments. B. Home-Care Workers as Companions. C. Coke v. Long Island Care at Home, Ltd.: Rejecting the Dol's Application of the Companionship-Services Exemption to Third-Party Home-Care Employers. V. Reducing the Occupational Hazards of Home-Care Work. A. The Legacy of Domestic Service. B. Telecommuting Workers and Home Offices. C. The OSH Act's Relevance for Home-Care Workers. 1. Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens. 2. "Handling" Injuries. a. Obstacles to Eliminating Handling Injuries. b. The ...

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• Iowa Law Review
• Nbr. 92-5, July 2007

• The Right Fit -- Ambitions Take a Turn for the Better in Own Business

When James Ramsey graduated from then-Memphis State University in 1988, he wasn't sure he was on the right career path. Armed with a degree in recreational business administration, he worked in a nursing home, facilitating therapeutic help for the elderly.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• November 28, 2007

• Savvy Senior: ; How to Find a Good Home Health-Care Aide

Dear Savvy Senior: What's the best way to find a good home-care aide to help my elderly mother? - Worn Out Dear Worn: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.4 million Americans require the help of a paid caregiver each year. But finding good home care can be a real challenge. Here are some tips that can help:

• Charleston Gazette
• February 19, 2008

• Legislators Back to Iron Out Scholarship Expansion

NASHVILLE - Daylong efforts to forge a compromise on how to expand Tennessee's lottery scholarship program collapsed Tuesday night, at least temporarily, forcing state lawmakers who had hoped to adjourn the 2008 legislative session back today. Also delayed until today are final passage of a $28 billion state budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, a voluntary buyout plan to reduce the state workforce by 2,011 employees, and a $12 million long-term care plan for the elderly that adds services to help older Tennesseans live at home instead of nursing homes.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• May 21, 2008

• Seniors Can Apply for Extra Heating Assistance

HARTFORD -- Senior citizens can apply for a new allocation of $4 million to provide extra winter heating assistance. The Elderly Home Heating Assistance Plan will provide one-time payments of up to $500 per household directly to utilities, heating oil dealers or other vendors for heating expenses this winter. Seniors who are eligible for aid from the state's two primary low- income heating assistance programs -- the Connecticut Energy Assistance Program and the Connecticut Heating Assistance Program -- must first exhaust those benefits before being eligible for help from the Elderly Home Heating Assistance Plan.

• New Haven Register
• October 21, 2008

• Catholic Charities Seeks Volunteers

CARIBOU - Catholic Charities Maine, Home and Family Services is looking for volunteers to help serve the elderly and disabled in Aroostook County. Orientation and continued training and support will be provided.

• Bangor Daily News
• April 12, 2004