When big financial interests buy up a local software company, its own employees may feel the change but its home community will likely not even notice.
Not so with businesses providing social care—child care, elder care, disabled care. When these small enterprises are bought up—often in multiples—by large holding companies, suddenly employees find themselves tied to an app and new work procedures. The result usually forces them to lower care quality standards which can impact their clients adversely.
Home care is a sector of social care under tremendous pressures—in terms of job quality, low wages, low worker retention rates, and so on.
In the U.S., an estimated 30,000 home care agencies operate today, of which 11,500 are Medicare-certified. These numbers are far lower than what’s needed but setting up a home care business has not been simple.
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