Seventy-five percent of Missouri voters voted "yes" on Proposition B this November 4th, a major victory in the effort to ensure quality home care services for Missouri's growing senior population and its citizens with disabilities.
(Workers in Motion: Hundreds of home care attendants worked over the past year to collect the required signatures and educate voters on the needed improvements to Missouri's home care system).
More than 8,000 home care workers provide the assistance that allows thousands of Missourians with disabilities and seniors to live at home instead of more costly institutions. The passage of Proposition B will establish a consumer-led Quality Home Care Council to ensure a stable workforce of reliable home caregivers is in place to meet the demand and ensure older Missourians can remain in the setting they prefer, their homes.
Proposition B will also make life easier for those who need home health care by:
* Helping workers and those who need them find each other through a statewide workforce directory
* Providing a backup system when an attendant is needed in an emergency
* Ensuring a better qualify of life for workers who now earn an average of $8.93 an hour with no benefits
Read about MO residents who will benefit from the passage of Proposition B here and here.
For more information, visit www.moqualityhomecare.org.
