Dr. Madeline Sterling

Home health aides (HHAs) are vulnerable to stress, isolation and depressive symptoms, which impact their own health as well as their patients’ desire to age in place, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers.

Awards, honors and achievements for the month of April. 

Dr. Madeline Sterling, an assistant professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been awarded a 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Award by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Home health care workers often suffer from poorer physical and mental health, when compared with similar low-wage frontline workers.

Awards, honors, prizes and achievements for the month of March.

Home health care workers faced increased risks to their physical, mental and financial well-being while providing essential care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech and Cornell University.

Cornell Tech and Weill Cornell Medicine have been awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grant that will fund interdisciplinary research on the role of technology among home health aides caring for adults with heart failure.