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Home Instead Senior Care Teams up with AARP

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Contributed by: Kelly Dias on 3/17/2008

Home Instead Senior Care, a local company serving El Paso and Teller Counties, has joined AARP's National Employer Team (NET) - a network of employers who value the experience and skills of the 50+ worker, according to AARP.

The NET program connects 50+ workers with employment opportunities at companies that now include Home Instead Senior Care, an international non-medical caregiving company with more than 760 offices worldwide, including the local franchise.

To join this elite team, employers must undertake a detailed application process to demonstrate their interest in hiring mature workers. AARP's website ( www.aarp.org/employerteam) provides information on the employers and the positions they have posted on their websites, along with links to each employer's AARP career page.

"We have always valued the mature worker and are thrilled to be part of this program," said Kathryn Curry, owner of the local Home Instead Senior Care office. "We are proud to be an employer that recognizes the many contributions mature workers bring to the workforce, not only in our community but throughout the world."

Home Instead Senior Care strives to help keep seniors independent. The company's non-medical services include companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping and escort for errands and shopping. More than 50,000 Home Instead CAREGivers are screened, trained, bonded, insured and have sucessfully passed through criminal background checks.

"Our National Employer Team members recognize the changes occuring in the labor force," said Deborah Russell, AARP's Director of Workforce Issues. "AARP's NET members come from fields ranging from retail to travel to security with positions spanning the gap from tax examiners for the Internal Revenue Service to country directors for the Peace Corps," added Russell. "Boomers' experience provides a valuable resource to employers who face worker shortages in many diverse areas."

Others recently named to the NET are the IRS, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Peace Corps, Scripps Health, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Synergy HomeCare, AnswerNet and Vedior North America.

For more information about Home Instead Senior Care, log onto www.homeinsteadcare.net or call the local franchise office at 534-0908.

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