Some residents hire home health aides to provide additional care.

Since April 2004, more than 500 home health aides have taken part.

The home health aides, nearly all of them women, usually earn $6 or $7 an hour.

Average costs for home health aides are $21 an hour.

Until last year she had only daytime help, from family members or home health aides.

She had been a home health aide for 15 years.

I got enough to pay for a daily home health aide.

"He could get a home health aide, but that's not family."

Being a home health aide is not exactly a glamour job.

At the same time, it calls for spending more on home health aides and other programs to help the elderly stay in their homes longer.

Some residents hire home health aides to provide additional care.

Since April 2004, more than 500 home health aides have taken part.

The home health aides, nearly all of them women, usually earn $6 or $7 an hour.

Average costs for home health aides are $21 an hour.

Until last year she had only daytime help, from family members or home health aides.

She had been a home health aide for 15 years.

I got enough to pay for a daily home health aide.

"He could get a home health aide, but that's not family."

Being a home health aide is not exactly a glamour job.

At the same time, it calls for spending more on home health aides and other programs to help the elderly stay in their homes longer.