The Need for and the Needs of the Direct Care Workforce

As has been noted in these pages repeatedly, the world of long-term services and supports (LTSS) occupies an especially precarious position in American social policy. Along at least three dimensions, it can be seen as a residual world: LTSS addresses vulnerable and often devalued populations, the nature of complexity of chronic illness renders it less attractive to providers than more acute health care needs, and when LTSS is addressed by public policy it is most often through a means-tested and selective public assistance program, Medicaid. Very much caught up in and harmed by this toxic environment are those who do the most demanding work within it: the LTSS direct care workforce.

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