Now the state must find money to pay for health plans for people who care for the elderly and disabledRichard Devylder knows firsthand the importance of home health-care workers: They feed, bathe, dress, change catheters and take people to the doctor.All the embarrassing little details of our everyday lives which we all hope we can always handle ourselves; but which most of us — some of us sooner, many more later — will need help doing.Devylder now chairs the Los Angeles County Personal Assistance Service Council. This county-appointed board administers the county system that supervises the placing of what are now 73,000 home caregivers. These are the people who give intimate assistance in the homes of close to 100,000 disabled and elderly people. As a man with neither arms nor legs, Devylder notes that he himself has spent a lot of time in the consumer‘s end of the business.