Kyle Hill: The caregiver-to-senior ratio will drop by half
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Kyle Hill, co-founder and CEO of HomeHero, highlights an impending labor crisis in eldercare as demographic demand outpaces the availability of professional caregivers.
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“The number of caregivers we have in our relative number of seniors is going to cut in half”
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