Advocates say theres a home care worker crisis happening in Nevada [Video]

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Advocates say Nevada is in a home care worker crisis.

There is a shortage of workers and it is only expected to get worse. To learn more, FOX5 met with an 88-year-old Henderson woman who still lives independently at her senior apartment but needs help from a home care worker and spoke with her care worker about why it is so difficult to find and keep people in the profession.

Regina Brown-Ross takes care of 88-year-old Mary Irene Mitchell for 10 hours each week. “That includes anywhere from bathing to toileting to cleaning to running errands, going to the bank, picking up prescriptions, making doctor’s appointments,” Brown-Ross explained.

“You have to understand that it takes a lot of people to take care of me, and she does a wonderful job,” shared Mitchell.

Mitchell had polio as a girl and with her legs permanently losing muscle, …