Selfhelp provided her with a home aide to help her shop and go to the doctor.

"Now they're competing for a growing number of clients" with hospices, home aides, and other forms of care.

Ms. Pinckney now lives in a bright subsidized apartment where home aides visit twice a day.

During his final two years Ward was weak, bedridden, and in need of constant care from home aides.

Merchandise accounts paid once a week by a home aide.

Those costs do not include fees charged by a home aide or other services a manager may arrange.

The hospital and agencies said my parents were qualified to receive a home aide under Medicare, but they couldn't say when one would be available.

Their popularity grew when nursing home aides discovered that they were not covered by previous restrictions.

She married an American, she said, "but it didn't work out," and had been working there as a licensed home aide.

For eight years, a home aide has helped him to avoid being hospitalized.