The newest additions to PHI’s National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce:

PHI’s National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce is a national online library for people in search of solutions to the direct-care staffing crisis in long-term care. It houses over 800 articles, reports, issue briefs, and fact sheets on the direct-care workforce. The latest publications include:

• The need for national training standards/guidelines for privately paid geriatric home caregivers
• A synthesis of direct service workforce demographics and challenges across intellectual/ developmental disabilities, aging, physical disabilities, and behavioral health
• Home and community-based services: Public policies to improve access, costs, and quality
• Who are direct-care workers? (Updated version)