When last we wrote of local home health-care workers, there was hope in the air. As you may recall, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors asked the state for some health-care benefits for primary health-care givers. Those workers — 73,000 of whom have registered with the county — come into your home when you can’t take care of yourself and take care of you. They help many thousands of seniors, people with disabilities, and people of all ages who simply need care during recovery from severe accidents and illness. They do difficult work; they get paid around $6 an hour to feed, clean, medicate and otherwise assist people in their homes. ”The work they do is unremunerative and burdensome,“ said Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky last week. And in its difficulty and quiet importance, there‘s something saintly about their task.
Source: Mean and Cheap | L.A. Weekly