A homecare worker wakes at 3:30 a.m., showers, and prepares for a more than 10-hour day of attending to her clients.
She cooks. She cleans. She replaces catheter bags. She bathes her clients, checks their blood pressure, and ensures they take their medication. When she wraps up her shift at the home of a disabled U.S. Iraq War veteran at 4:30 p.m., she is off the clock but returns to the house of her first client, a 92-year-old woman with dementia who lives alone, and cooks her dinner.
She earns $18.50 an hour and is provided no health care benefits. She loves her job but worries President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration and plans for mass deportations could threaten her ability to do it.
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