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Coordinated Care, Provided by Interdisciplinary Team, Improves Health
March 7, 2013
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) and The National Coalition on Care Coordination (N3C), a national membership coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the quality of care for individuals through support for care coordination in health and social sectors, today published an issue brief on care coordination and older adults.
read more >>>The State of Quality Care Demands Quality Jobs
February 13, 2013
EWA co-conveners Nancy Lundebjerg and Michèle Saunders discuss FLSA minimum wage and overtime protection for home care workers in this The Huffington Post op-Ed.
read more >>>“Fiscal Cliff” Has Serious Implications for Eldercare
October 19, 2012
New York, N.Y. – If the across-the-board cuts, or “sequester,” scheduled for January 2013 take effect, they will have a significant negative impact on services for older adults and the supply of qualified professionals available to care for them, according to an issue brief released today by the Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA), a coalition of 29 national organizations committed to person-centered team care for older adults.
read more >>>EWA Applauds Efforts to Reauthorize Older Americans Act
September 20, 2012
The Eldercare Workforce Alliance (EWA) is pleased to see the inclusion of eldercare workforce provisions within a bill to reauthorize the Older Americans Act (S. 3562), introduced yesterday by Senator Bernie Sanders, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, and fifteen other cosponsors.
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