SAN DIEGO: The current media and public angst over a projected shortage of homecare workers, their status, income and country of origin is a case of self-flagellation, hysteria, political naivety and societal myopia.
A sustainable, sensible solution is working its way into care life that malcontents, press dipsticks, public policy trolls and grandstanding politicians cannot see.
A combination of two trends is coalescing to create the first fully paid carer workforce. The voucher system, whereby the recipients of healthcare are paid directly and contract their own care, when combined with changes to employment law, which allows full time workers to work part time from home, will see a fully paid carer workforce emerge…