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Domestic helpers as frontline workers in China's home-based elder care
— a systematic review | | Author(s) | Jing Wang, Bei Wu |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 29, no 4, 2017 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, 2017 |
| Pages | pp 294-305 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Care support workers ; Domestic assistance ; Home care services ; Literature reviews ; China ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | The authors conducted a systematic review of the existing empirical studies which focus on Chinese domestic helpers in mainland China and foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong who provide care for community-dwelling older adults. There are very limited studies specifically focusing on this population. The findings synthesise domestic helpers' characteristics, acknowledge their contributions to elder care in China, and show multiple challenges facing them, such as issues related to their physical health and emotional well-being, lack of legal rights protection, difficulties of adapting life in the host city, lack of training, and risk of abuse and sexual harassment. The findings support the need for developing training and educational courses about legal rights protection and cultural competency for domestic helpers; the need to promote domestic helpers' access to health care and social welfare, and opportunities for career advancement; and the need to provide respectful working conditions. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180112227 A |
| Classmark | QRS: NG6: NH: 64A: 7DC: 7DR |
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