Caring for the Caregiver-New Yorker Story About Caregiver You Employ

I owned a geriatric care management agency for 25 years. I employed doctors from China, nuns who had fled Serbia, many nurses ,accountants and engineers from the Philippines.

Did I I know their caregiving skills, honesty (background checks), ability to speak two sometimes three languages— yes.

But did I know their real background? Did I know they left children at home because they could not make enough money in their native country to feed or even put them through college.

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Who do we really hire to care for our elders? Here is an article from the New Yorker to tell you . Perhaps as an industry and country that demands a two income wage earner, where women must work and leave their kids and elders to the care of often immigrant care providers- we need to know more about these woman and men who care so well but leave their own families.