title: Building a peer mentor home health aide program: implications for home health aide retention.
abstract: The Home Health Aide (HHA) industry is challenged with low wages, little possibility of career advancement, and high turnover rates. Jewish Home Lifecare, Home Assistance Personnel Inc. (HAPI) is a home care aide agency that has developed a Peer Mentor HHA program. Peer Mentor HHAs mentor newly hired/trained HHAs within our agency. This career path leads to higher paying work that allows for growth of our workforce for the identified growing care need and positively impacts HHA retention.
authors.affiliation: Jewish Home Lifecare, New York, NY 10001, USA. akreiser@jewishhome.org
authors.forename: Athena Lu
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Kreiser
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adamski
authors.forename: Bridget
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gallagher
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018576:Home Health Aides / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D010558:Personnel Loyalty; D010563:Personnel Turnover / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014481:United States