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.
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.
