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Women still taking care
— the experiences of older home care workers | | Author(s) | Sandra Butler |
| Journal title | Journal of Gerontological Social Work, vol 52, issue 3, 2009 |
| Pages | pp 277-293 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Care home staff ; Conditions of employment [elderly] ; Pilot ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Home care workers - almost exclusively women - provide hands-on care and emotional support to millions of older people each year. This work is both physically and emotionally challenging. Furthermore, low wages, lack of benefits, and a job that is not highly valued in our society make worker recruitment and retention difficult. This article reports on an exploratory study of the experiences of older home care workers. The purpose of this pilot study was to better understand how society can best support these older home care workers in the important work they do. A secondary purpose was to provide preliminary data for potential future research investigating how work experience may differ for older versus younger home care workers, with the ultimate goal of more specifically targeting workplace interventions based on worker needs. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100929004 A |
| Classmark | N: QRM: GC:WKA: 4UC: 7T |
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