How California Can Improve Oversight of Home Caregivers
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In California, hundreds of thousands of low-income elderly and disabled people receive daily care in their homes from relatives and others paid by the state.聽Yet, no overall training is required for the more than 400,000 caregivers, who are paid about $10 an hour through the $7.3 billion In-Home Supportive Services Program. And the program provides little oversight.
On KPCC’s Take Two, Kaiser Health News Reporter Anna Gorman said that while the IHSS program does work for many Californians, the state needs to pay more attention to those in the program who are vulnerable.
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