Ms. Sanjek said hospitals were also short of social workers, who often arrange for nursing-home transfers and home-care attendants.

But even if housing is arranged, officials cannot find enough home-care attendants.

"Kelvin," his mother, Marisol, a home-care attendant, had said, "it's just a baseball game."

They work as home-care attendants for $6 an hour, struggling to pay the bills.

"Four pending staffing crises are evident, in home-care attendants, social workers, hospital nursing staff and medical staff."

Mother and Daughters Miss Williams, a home-care attendant who was on her way to work, said she felt something nick her head.

A new career as a home-care attendant and feeling that she was partially fulfilling her dream of being a nurse.

But he said he favored higher pay as a way of recruiting more home-care attendants, saying a modest investment "can cure a larger problem."

When she obtained her green card a few years later, she found work as a home-care attendant, putting in 12-hour shifts, seven days a week.

There is a growing need for publicly funded assistance to provide, for instance, home-care attendants and respite care to give family care-givers time off.