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Avgar, CAROW Awarded Grant to Document Home Care Worker Power

The ILR School and Weill Cornell Medicine have received a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to administer a worker-focused survey of home health aides across the North and the South of the United States.
Ariel Avgar
Avgar, CAROW Awarded Grant to Document Home Care Worker Power

Health Care Cooperatives Could Hold Key to Easing Elderly Caregiver Shortage

Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans, according to a new study co-authored by Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08, and Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08, director of ILR’s Initiative on Home Care Work.
Scheinman Institute team helping measure results of healthcare restructuring
Health Care Cooperatives Could Hold Key to Easing Elderly Caregiver Shortage

How AI Can be Implemented More Fairly in Home Health Care and Low-Wage Work Settings

New findings from the Initiative on Home Care Work at Cornell University’s Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) points to how stakeholders can use AI more fairly in home health care and low-wage work settings.
Home care worker talks with patient
How AI Can be Implemented More Fairly in Home Health Care and Low-Wage Work Settings

Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

Cornell Chronicle
A study led by co-authors Nicola Dell and Ian René Solano-Kamaiko reveals that home care workers are unaware of the artificial intelligence (AI) systems being implemented in their workplace and highlights the need for greater transparency.
home care-with-nurse
Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits

CAROW Examines How Unions Can Help Direct Care Workers

A pair of published papers released by the CAROW Initiative on Home Care Work shows that unionized direct care workers are likely to earn more money and are more likely to have employer-sponsored health care insurance and pension plans than non-unionized direct care workers.
A nurse tends to a wheelchair bound patient in her home
CAROW Examines How Unions Can Help Direct Care Workers

CAROW Affiliate Nicola Dell Named MacArthur Fellow

Cornell Chronicle
Nicola Dell has been awarded a 2024 MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her work developing technology interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations, including home health care aides and survivors of intimate partner violence.
Nicola Dell
CAROW Affiliate Nicola Dell Named MacArthur Fellow

SETS Educational Initiative Announced in Google Cyber NYC Program

Safe and Trustworthy AI in Home Health Care Work: A team including Nicola Dell, Deborah Estrin, Madeline Sterling and Ariel Avgar will investigate the trust, safety, and privacy challenges related to implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in home health care.
Cornell Tech
SETS Educational Initiative Announced in Google Cyber NYC Program

Study Finds Home Health Aides Struggle with Mental Health

Cornell Chronicle
Home health aides (HHAs) are vulnerable to stress, isolation and depressive symptoms, which impact their own health as well as their patients’ desire to age in place, according to new research co-authored by Professor Ariel Avgar.
A tired Black nurse looks out a window
Study Finds Home Health Aides Struggle with Mental Health

Paid home care workers go well beyond standard duties

Cornell Chronicle
Paid home care workers are helping patients manage chronic conditions and promoting general and mental health – going well beyond the personal care contributions for which they have been historically associated, according to new Cornell research.
A hospital bed in a living room
Paid home care workers go well beyond standard duties

Home Health Care Workforce Researched

Senior Associate Dean Ariel Avgar collaborates with Weill Cornell and Cornell Tech colleagues to study working conditions of home health aides, home attendants and nursing assistants.
A group of healthcare workers standing together
Home Health Care Workforce Researched

Dr. Madeline Sterling Wins Clinical Scientist Development Award from Doris Duke Foundation

Dr. Madeline Sterling, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Award by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Madeline Sterling
Dr. Madeline Sterling Wins Clinical Scientist Development Award from Doris Duke Foundation

Overlooked, Undervalued: Cornell Research Seeks to Elevate Home Care Workers

Cornell Chronicle
Professor Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08 is part of an ambitious, multidisciplinary research program aimed at elevating the value of home care workers.
A home health aid and her patient on a telemedicine call
Overlooked, Undervalued: Cornell Research Seeks to Elevate Home Care Workers

Improving Working Conditions for Better Patient Care: ILR-Weill Cornell Research

An ILR-Weill Cornell Medicine collaboration highlights the benefits of prioritizing enhanced working conditions for frontline health care workers as a way to improve long-term patient care.
A nurse passes medication to a patient
Improving Working Conditions for Better Patient Care: ILR-Weill Cornell Research

Study: Disease-Specific Training Benefits Home Care Workers

Cornell Chronicle

New cross-campus research from Ariel Avgar and Weill Cornell Medicine shows that home care workers who have been trained in heart failure are more satisfied with their jobs and feel more prepared and confident working with heart failure patients.

A home health care workers helps a patient out of her wheel chair.
Study: Disease-Specific Training Benefits Home Care Workers

Avgar part of NSF Future of Work project

Cornell Chronicle

Tech tools for invisible, but essential, home health care workers are being developed by a Cornell Tech, Weill Cornell Medicine and ILR team that includes Associate Dean Ariel Avgar as a co-principal investigator.

A frustrated healthcare aide with her head in her hands.
Avgar part of NSF Future of Work project

ILR, Weill, Cornell Tech Collaborate on Research

Cornell Chronicle

Associate Dean Ariel Avgar and Cornell colleagues share findings on increased risks to New York City home health care workers during pandemic.

A healthcare worker and patient wearing face masks.
ILR, Weill, Cornell Tech Collaborate on Research

Collaboration With Weill

ILR Associate Dean of Outreach Ariel Avgar is working with faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine to research the working conditions of low-wage frontline health care professionals in New York to assess the impact on patient care.
Associate Professor Ariel Avgar, Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08 and Douglas Wigdor meeting at ILR’s NYC headquarters.
Collaboration With Weill