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Stone, R. & Newcomer, R. (2009). Advances and issues in personal care. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 25(1), pp.35-45.

Abstract

The focus of this article is paid personal assistant service (PAS) workers in community settings, and the converging current and future trends affecting the need to strengthen and expand the PAS workforce. A number of ways in which the federal and state governments, and the private sector can begin to solve the short and long-term workforce challenges are highlighted (abstract from:
http://www.geriatric.theclinics.com/article/S0749-0690(08)00062-1/abstract).

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