I started working in home care around 2010 and at one of the first industry events I went to, I met a great guy named Aaron Marcum whose company is called Home Care Pulse.  They set out to do a home care benchmarking study so agencies can see how they stack up to their peers.  The survey itself and Aaron's company have been highly successful and I recently saw Aaron give a keynote presentation at the Decision Health Private Duty Conference.

In his presentation, Aaron focused on caregivers with a special focus on retaining the best caregivers.  Among the topics that he covered (and broke down be region) were recruitment sources, caregiver engagement scores, caregiver turnover reasons, caregiver recognition, overtime pay, wages and benefits.

Top 5 Reasons a Caregiver Chooses a Home Care Agency

One point that I found interesting was the top 5 reasons a caregiver chooses to work for a provider, as shown in the following chart.

In this case, the regional differences were not particularly pronounced, so I think it's useful for all of us to look at these top five sources:

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