CAROW exists to connect research on work with the practice of putting it to use. We support member institutes and affiliated faculty and students in their efforts to take insights about work, labor and employment and share them broadly. We are uniquely placed to seed innovative research projects and partnerships that put academic study into practice. Through training, convening, and the development of new tools, CAROW provides resources to change work for the better.
Avgar, CAROW Awarded Grant to Document Home Care Worker Power
The ILR School and Weill Cornell Medicine have received a $300,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to administer a worker-focused survey of home health aides across the North and the South of the United States.
Health Care Cooperatives Could Hold Key to Easing Elderly Caregiver Shortage
Home care cooperatives may be the key to alleviating the shortage of paid caregivers for older Americans, according to a new study co-authored by Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08, and Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08, director of ILR’s Initiative on Home Care Work.
How AI Can be Implemented More Fairly in Home Health Care and Low-Wage Work Settings
New findings from the Initiative on Home Care Work at Cornell University’s Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) points to how stakeholders can use AI more fairly in home health care and low-wage work settings.
Home care workers unaware of AI’s role and potential benefits
Cornell Chronicle
A study led by co-authors Nicola Dell and Ian René Solano-Kamaiko reveals that home care workers are unaware of the artificial intelligence (AI) systems being implemented in their workplace and highlights the need for greater transparency.
Dr. Madeline Sterling Discusses how Unionization Affects Direct Care Workers
Apple Podcasts
In this episode of the PALTtalk podcast, Dr. Madeline Sterling, MD, MPH, MS, discusses how unions affect direct care workers’ employment conditions, economic outcomes, and well-being.
CAROW Examines How Unions Can Help Direct Care Workers
A pair of published papers released by the CAROW Initiative on Home Care Work shows that unionized direct care workers are likely to earn more money and are more likely to have employer-sponsored health care insurance and pension plans than non-unionized direct care workers.
Domestic workers perform the critical labor of caring for children and cleaning homes but face many forms of exploitation. Zoë West, Ketchel Carey, and Anne Marie Brady of ILR’s Worker Institute break down how an innovative peer training model is empowering domestic workers to demand more on the job.
Why Are Direct Care Workers So Crucial and What Can Be Done to Improve their Working Conditions?
Guest contributor Kiran Abraham-Aggarwal, ILR '25, discusses direct care workers--the challenges they face, how their working conditions relate to patient outcomes, and possible ways forward.
Dr. Geoffrey Gusoff Discusses the Home Care Workforce on PALTalk Podcast
Apple Podcasts
In this episode of the PALTtalk podcast, Geoffrey Gusoff, M.D., M.B.A., M.S. talks about his study on enhancing the workforce via improving home care workers’ voices.
Dr. Madeline Sterling Talks about Home Care Workers on the "A Question of Care" Podcast
On the "A Question of Care" podcast, Madeline Sterling, M.D., talks about her studies on home care workers, what they reveal about this job sector and how the U.S. should transform these jobs to benefit everyone.
The Women Working to Solve the Home Health Caregiver Crisis
Forbes
Dr. Madeline Sterling works with adults who suffer from chronic conditions. The main focus of her research is to find ways to empower the home health aide workforce while improving patient care.
Paid home care workers go well beyond standard duties
Cornell Chronicle
Paid home care workers are helping patients manage chronic conditions and promoting general and mental health – going well beyond the personal care contributions for which they have been historically associated, according to new Cornell research.
Dr. Madeline Sterling Speaks with PIX11 News about Caring for Caregivers
Caregivers and home health aides are at increased risk for depression and anxiety. Dr. Madeline Sterling, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, explains how to support the caregivers.
Senior Associate Dean Ariel Avgar collaborates with Weill Cornell and Cornell Tech colleagues to study working conditions of home health aides, home attendants and nursing assistants.
Dr. Madeline Sterling Wins Clinical Scientist Development Award from Doris Duke Foundation
Dr. Madeline Sterling, assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Award by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Dr. Madeline Sterling, Manhattan doctor helping home aides prevent heart failure in a new training course
Spectrum NY 1
Dr. Madeline Sterling, a physician and researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine, started a program that specializes in helping home health aides teach patients be healthier, from reminding them to take their medication to teaching them about maintaining a healthy diet and identifying the warning signs for heart failure.
Improving Working Conditions for Better Patient Care: ILR-Weill Cornell Research
An ILR-Weill Cornell Medicine collaboration highlights the benefits of prioritizing enhanced working conditions for frontline health care workers as a way to improve long-term patient care.
ILR Associate Dean of Outreach Ariel Avgar is working with faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine to research the working conditions of low-wage frontline health care professionals in New York to assess the impact on patient care.
