Posts by Penn Asian Senior Services
The Care Gap: Why We Need More Home Health Aides
It does not matter what you call them: home caregivers, personal care assistants, home care workers, or anything else. Home health aides (HHAs) are the most in-demand workers in the country. According to analysis of the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there will be 1.3 million more direct care jobs by 2028.…
Read MoreHow to Stay in Your Home as Long as Possible
Most seniors would rather stay in their own homes than move to a nursing home. According to the AARP, 90 percent of people over 65 want to remain at home as long as possible, and 80 percent believe they will always live at their current home. But that means making sure your home fits you.…
Read MoreThe Warning Signs of a Fall, and How to Prevent it
Stats on falls among seniors can be grim. According to facts about falls from the CDC: In 2018, older adults reported 35.6 million falls More than one-third of people 65 and older fall each year 20 percent of falls cause a serious injury, such as head injuries and broken bones (more than 95 percent of…
Read MoreDo You Live in a NORC (or Should You)?
Right now, it’s possible that more than twice as many seniors live in NORCs than in planned senior communities. Despite this popularity, NORCs are generally invisible except to the people who live in them. You might not even know a building is a NORC until you move in. You might not even know it immediately…
Read MoreMedicaid Limits and Pay for Caregivers
Despite high demand for caregivers, home health aides (HHAs) are still underpaid. Adjusted for inflation, their pay has only risen by about $0.20 over the past decade. That seems to violate the most basic law of economics, supply and demand: as the demand for workers increases, the wages they receive should increase too. But things…
Read MoreDomestic Workers and Labor Law
On March 21, 2012, the National Partnership for Women & Families, along with 27 other national organizations, wrote a letter to the US Department of Labor to correct an injustice 75 years in the making. These 28 organizations were fighting to fix a law that for years had overlooked or excluded domestic workers, including caregivers…
Read MoreHow Race and Gender Keep Caregivers Underpaid
According to the most recent data from the US Bureau of Labor, the median hourly wage for home health aides (HHAs) is just $11.52 an hour That rate that has hardly changed for the past decade. In general, the pay for care work is actually lower than other jobs with similar characteristics and requirements. But…
Read MorePASSi Receives Training Grant
Penn Asian Senior Services is proud to announce that we are one of only four organizations in the state chosen to receive a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry to provide direct care worker training. Through this grant PASSi will train 228 members of the community for careers as Home Health Aides,…
Read MorePASSi Receives Governor’s Award for Safety Excellence
PASSi has been selected to receive the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry’s Governor’s Award for Safety Excellence (GASE) in recognition of its robust worker safety program and its track record of providing and promoting a safe work environment for all of its employees, both in the field as well as in the office.Awarded annually,…
Read MorePASSi Featured in Blue Bell’s Finest
Our CEO Ms. Im Ja Choi appeared on the cover page of Blue Bell’s Finest.
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