For example, if you find that your home health aide may cost $70,000 per year, it could benefit you to purchase $210,000 in long-term care insurance — or three times your expected annual cost of ...

Given that Medicaid pays for much of the funding for home health care, Becerra and the Biden administration hope that a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid rule will rectify the worker shortage by ...

Some 3.7 million people had jobs as aides in home health or personal care in 2022, with half of them earning less than $30,000 a year, or $14.51 an hour, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

April Abel, a former home health nurse at Roper St. Francis Healthcare, in the home of a patient, Ron Keur, in Summerville, S.C., in 2022. Desiree Rios/The New York Times ...

Many Americans hope to spend their old age at home, rather than moving into a care facility. When the time comes, they rely on the more than 2 million home health aides who provide day-to-day support.