{"id":10074,"date":"2022-08-05T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=10074"},"modified":"2022-08-04T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T21:58:10","slug":"home-care-aides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/home-care-aides\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Care Aides Are Undervalued\u2014But an Alum Aims to Change That"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Work led by Weill Cornell Medicine\u2019s Madeline Sterling \u201908 could help boost job conditions and status in an essential field<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s note: This story has been adapted and condensed from <\/em>a feature<\/em><\/a> in the <\/em>Cornell Chronicle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Susan Kelley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cStop it, stop it!\u201d Yanick Pierre-Louis, 68, slapped her knees, frustrated they wouldn\u2019t stop trembling. Again, her body refused to do what she wanted. She had just spent an excruciating 25 minutes walking, grimacing with each step, from her recliner in her Brooklyn home to her front door and back, leaning on her walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie Dorvilne, her home care worker since 2017, walked behind Pierre-Louis and circled her arms around her torso. She used her knee to help Pierre-Louis bend her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides rheumatoid arthritis in her knees and shoulders, Pierre-Louis struggles with gout, diabetes, coronary artery disease, memory issues, headaches, and incontinence. She is a breast cancer survivor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they made it back inside, Dorvilne eased Pierre-Louis down to the recliner. \u201cI don\u2019t turn my back until I know she is on the chair\u2014sitting, not standing,\u201d says Dorvilne, a certified nursing assistant with 18 years of experience in the profession. \u201cI don\u2019t trust her to stand for one minute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She elevated Pierre-Louis\u2019s feet in a recliner and rubbed her knees with swift, gentle strokes, light blue nails making a circular blur. \u201cYou\u2019ll be all right, you\u2019ll be OK,\u201d she says. Within a few minutes, Pierre-Louis\u2019s knees stopped trembling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., Dorvilne is Pierre-Louis\u2019s bather, dresser, cook, companion, cheerleader, and healthcare manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She monitors Pierre-Louis\u2019s blood pressure, gives her medications three times a day, times her meals to keep her diabetes in check, schedules and takes her to medical appointments, and alerts doctors and Pierre-Louis’s daughter to changes in her health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s after an eight-hour night shift, taking care of 12 patients at a nursing home. She has one Saturday off every other week. \u201cSome people have time to relax, but I don\u2019t have time to relax,\u201d Dorvilne says. \u201cBut in a way, I feel like I\u2019m not working. I feel like I\u2019m helping her. I look at it like she\u2019s my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As an undergrad, Sterling studied biology in Arts & Sciences. (Photo by Lindsay France \/ Cornell University.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Dorvilne\u2019s caregiving inspired Pierre-Louis\u2019s doctor, Madeline Sterling \u201908<\/a>, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, alongside experts from the ILR School and Cornell Tech, to launch an ambitious, multidisciplinary research program aimed at elevating the value of home care workers\u2014which includes home health aides, home attendants and nursing assistants\u2014while improving both their working conditions and their patients\u2019 outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In three years, the team has partnered with the country\u2019s largest healthcare worker union to produce more than 20 academic papers that aim to reshape the way policymakers view this critical workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The research illuminates how the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the value of these workers\u2014mostly middle-aged immigrant women of color\u2014while the demand for their services is at a historic high. Yet here in New York State, they are paid on average $15 per hour\u2014about $19,000 per year\u2014and their work is chronically overlooked and undervalued by care teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology available to them is often out of date and rudimentary\u2014designed mainly to track the workers rather than provide them with tools and support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And though they usually have the most detailed knowledge of their patients\u2019 conditions, they have almost no interaction with or feedback from their patients\u2019 doctors or specialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost patients, like Yanick, actually want to be at home; they want to be aging in place,\u201d Sterling says. \u201cIt\u2019s a shift that we need to make, to start paying attention to home health providers, who are providing essential day-to-day care to patients to help manage their chronic diseases, and really integrate them into the medical arena.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most patients actually want to be at home; they want to be aging in place.<\/p>Internist Madeline Sterling \u201908<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For Pierre-Louis\u2019s first appointment with Sterling, Dorvilne came along.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat struck me the most was how involved and passionate she was about delivering high-quality care to my patient,\u201d Sterling says. \u201cIt was really through interactions in the office where I saw just how much she was observing in the home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorvilne cooks Pierre-Louis three healthful meals per day, makes sure she has eaten before taking her daily 20 pills, and does Pierre-Louis\u2019s physical therapy with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe knew when symptoms changed,\u201d Sterling says. \u201cShe also knew when medications were not helping, or when it was time to go seek care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pierre-Louis has a video check-in with Sterling as Dorvilne looks on. (Photo by No\u00ebl Heaney \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That prompted the Cornell team to launch a series of studies defining the unseen contributions of home care workers, establishing evidence of their value and revealing the lack of equity this workforce experiences, Sterling says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of their recent studies, which they conducted through Cornell\u2019s Survey Research Institute, suggests home care workers assist with a far wider scope of care than previously documented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 74% of New Yorkers surveyed said their caregivers provide medical care and\/or emotional support. Those patients were twice as likely to view their caregivers as \u201cvery important\u201d compared with those who received only personal care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though home health workers usually have the most detailed knowledge of their patients\u2019 conditions, they have almost no interaction with or feedback from their patients\u2019 doctors or specialists.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When Dorvilne sees Pierre-Louis become introverted and sad, she takes action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre-Louis frequently gets depressed by her physical limitations; until about 10 years ago, she lived an active life. She worked in Brooklyn hospitals as a healthcare worker and raised three children after emigrating from Haiti at age 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tell her, \u2018We don\u2019t have time [to be] depressed. Let\u2019s take a walk outside,\u2019\u201d says Dorvilne, 45, who was also born in Haiti and emigrated to the U.S. at age 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sterling video chats with Pierre-Louis. (Photo by Lindsay France \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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That kind of emotional support has become even more important during the pandemic, when so many vulnerable older people are isolated at home\u2014but it comes at a cost to home care workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cornell team conducted the first study on home care workers\u2019 experiences during the pandemic in the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It found those in New York City faced a higher risk for COVID-19, because many relied on public transportation and frequently lacked protection like masks and gloves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also faced higher risks to their mental and financial well-being and felt inadequately supported and generally invisible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These challenges contribute to a severe shortage of home care workers, while demand from a population that wants to age in place is growing exponentially, says Ariel Avgar, PhD \u201908<\/a>, professor of labor relations, law, and history in the ILR School and an expert in healthcare labor relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Avgar and a colleague in his ILR office. (Photo by No\u00ebl Heaney \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a tendency in the healthcare industry to view the workforce as a cost\u2014a cost that needs to be minimized,\u201d Avgar says. \u201cIn our research, we try to demonstrate how this workforce is not just a cost but a central way in which organizations can deliver high-quality care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers suggest several policies to support home care workers, such as designating them \u201cessential\u201d workers across the U.S., as they are in New York State; legislation to ensure they have masks and gloves; and assigning them to patients on a geographic basis to minimize their need to use public transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow do we make sure that the knowledge that they have, the insights that they have, make their way into the system in a more robust way?\u201d Avgar says. \u201cIt\u2019s happening in some places. But we\u2019re far from where we need to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story in the <\/em>Cornell Chronicle.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top image: Home care worker Marie Dorvilne tends to longtime patient Yanick Pierre-Louis. (Photo by Lindsay France \/ Cornell University)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published August 5, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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