Addressing the Home Care Shortage: Predictors of Willingness to Provide Paid Home Care in New York.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the prevalence and predictors of willingness to consider becoming a paid home care worker.

Design

Cross-sectional telephone-based survey study.

Setting and participants

800 adult residents of New York State participating in the 2020 Empire State Poll, an annual survey conducted in English and Spanish using random-digit dialing.

Methods

Willingness to consider working as a paid home care worker was analyzed as the main outcome. Survey questions also involved demographics and unpaid caregiving experience. We used multinomial logistic regression to examine associations between participant characteristics and willingness to be a paid caregiver.

Results

Participants had a mean age of 47.7 years (95% CI 45.4-50.0). Demographic informati

SUBMITTER: Shaw AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9547945 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature