{"id":18410,"date":"2021-06-30T08:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2021-06-30T08:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:39:01","slug":"desperate-for-home-care-seniors-often-wait-months-with-workers-in-short-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=18410","title":{"rendered":"Desperate for Home Care, Seniors Often Wait Months With Workers in Short Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>CASTINE, Maine \u2014 For years, Louise Shackett has had trouble walking or standing for long periods, making it difficult for her to clean her house in southeastern Maine or do laundry. Shackett, 80, no longer drives, which makes it hard to get to the grocery store or doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Her low income, though, qualifies her for a state program that pays for a personal aide 10 hours a week to help with chores and errands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt helps to keep me independent,\u201d she said.\u00a0 Continue reading the article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/desperate-for-home-care-seniors-often-wait-months-with-workers-in-short-supply\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News) CASTINE, Maine \u2014 For years, Louise Shackett has had trouble walking or standing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance","category-home-health-services","category-medicaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18411,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18410\/revisions\/18411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}