Summary

The article highlights key statistics about the need for home health care and provides a guide for hiring a home health care aide. It emphasizes the importance of finding the right candidate, understanding costs and payment options, ensuring proper training and qualifications, and ongoing supervision and evaluation. The article also suggests resources for finding home health care aides.

Key Statistics

• 90% of seniors want to age in place
• 70% of seniors will need long-term care at some point
• 44 million Americans provide unpaid care to a loved one
• 8 million Americans receive long-term care services
• Home health care aides are projected to be the third-fastest-growing occupation in the U.S. between 2019 and 2029