Many sources provide home care workers
Home care providers can come from a variety of sources — whether agencies, direct hire, or through online services. Here are descriptions of the differences between various types of home care agencies.
Independent providers are nurses, therapists, aides, homemakers and companions who are privately employed by individuals who need such services.
Aides, homemakers, chore workers and companions are not required to be licensed or to meet government standards except in cases where they receive state funding. In this arrangement, the responsibility for recruiting, hiring and supervising the provider rests completely with the client.
Excerpted from “Receiving Care at Home” and “Since You Care” by the MetLife Mature Market Institute and the website of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice. For more information, see www.nahc.org or call (202) 547-7424.
