Her children are grown, and she's been a home health aide since moving here from Guyana in 1990.
And one of the fastest-growing occupations in America is home health aide.
Ms. JOYCE LANE(ph) (Home Health Aide): My name is Joyce Lane(ph).
Byrd, a 45-year-old home health aide, was last seen alive Monday.
Orlyk sent a mass e-mail directing friends and family to the GiveForward campaign page she created to cover the cost of a hospital bed, wheelchair and a part-time, in-home health aide.
So, you're replacing a manufacturing job that can sustain a family with jobs where people are -- in some cases, if you're a home health aide, you're barely above the poverty line.
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Home health aide work can also be extremely physical and sometimes dangerous: workers often have to lift and move their patients who need help bathing, going to the bathroom, and moving around their homes.
Biomedical engineer, network systems and data communications analyst, home health aide: those are the top three career fields expected to hire workers between now and 2018, says a story tucked into The New York Times Education Life supplement last Sunday.
He said she had been working 70 to 80 hours, seven days a week as a home health care aide.
Her lawyers say she did not know much about her husband's activities because she spent most of her time outside the home working as a health aide while he watched their child.
She has a health care aide that checks in on her (thanks to Medicare) but otherwise requires a lot of home care.
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