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KAREN: And it seems like nowadays, people aren't staying at being health aides as long as people of your generation.

BARBARA: Uh-hum. Yeah. I know. And I think -- I think it has a lot to do with not being able to get some backup, you know, like if something happens in their family, or in the community where a person dies or, you know, it's a really bad situation, they have nobody to talk to.

And because they are the health aides there, they can't talk to the community, you know, unless it's -- unless they have a counselor there themselves.

But a lot of it is burnout, you know. They need to have time out for themselves. That's what they need mostly now, because I hear from the health aides.

Last year was the last time I went to our Health Aide Forum that we have every year.

And I know that a lot of the health aides there would -- would have liked to have been able to talk with someone, you know, about their -- their community. And the things that are not going right for them and what they can do about it or just being able to talk. You know. About these situations, yeah, in their own home life, too.

KAREN: Yeah.

BARBARA: So.