Article Publication Date:
6/1/2004
Summary:
This report, focused on New Jersey’s Personal Preference program, provides information on workers’ views about issues such as job satisfaction, roles and responsibilities, and ideas for recruiting and retaining new personal care workers. The report also describes similarities and differences between paid family caregivers and non-family caregivers.
Topics:
Consumer/Participant Direction
Types/Tools:
Populations:
Direct Care Workforce
Sources:
University of Maryland Center on Aging, College Park
Programs/Initiatives:
Cash and Counseling
States:
Report on New Jersey Paid Worker Focus Groups; Overall Impressions of Personal Preference; Becoming a Personal Care Worker; Moving from Being an Unpaid to a Paid Caregiver; Overview of Roles and Responsibilities; On Being a Personal Care Worker; On Linking Workers and Consumers; New Jersey’s Cash and Counseling Demonstration and
Evaluation (CCDE); Personal Preference
Contact
Elizabeth Maguire
National Resource Center for Participant-Directed Services
elizabeth.maguire.1@bc.edu
Phone:
617-552-0562
Short URL: http://www.advancingstates.org/node/52145