The Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the figure of aides financed by Medicare and Medicaid at 697,000 in 1996, a number that also includes paid housekeepers.

Types of caregivers that can be found on Sittercity.com include babysitters, nannies, pet sitters, dog walkers, senior care providers, housekeepers, and tutors.

The workers, who include housekeepers, waiters and dishwashers, threatened a strike as well as stage sit-ins in hotel lobbies and elevators.

It will include housekeepers, perhaps some laundry workers, people who deliver services to the intensive care unit.

They will include nurse's aides, cooks and housekeepers, Dr. Zimmerman said.

Additional members of the team are likely to include certified nursing assistants or home health care aides, volunteers from the community (largely untrained but some being skilled medical personnel), and housekeepers.

Jane Edwards, the superintendent of the Montana State Hospital, said strikers include aides, housekeepers, psychologists, social workers and therapists.

Mother's helpers include baby sitters, dog walkers, housekeepers and personal trainers, so why not a personal shopper for the little one's wardrobe?

The workers include housekeepers, nursing attendants, receptionists and deliverers of food trays.

Local 1199 members covered by the contract include X-ray and other technicians, nurses, nurses' aides, housekeepers, ward clerks, cooks and social workers.