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Working conditions in home care
— comparing three groups of workers | | Author(s) | Sheila M Neysmith, Barbara Nichols |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 13, no 2, Summer 1994 |
| Pages | pp 169-186 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; The Family ; Home care services ; Voluntary workers ; Job satisfaction ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Similarities and differences are explored in the way caring work is experienced by kin, homemakers and volunteers. Under the conceptual umbrella of working conditions, issues of work milieu, isolation, communication, feedback, autonomy, motivation and choice are compared across these three groups of care providers. Although the functional capacities of older people receiving care were quite similar, the circumstances that surrounded the performance of caring were quite different. The paper argues that the context within which care is provided will be critical in future policy discussions. It is suggested that the specific task content of providing care may be of secondary importance to understanding the context within which care providers carry out these activities. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-970821229 A |
| Classmark | N: SJ: NH: QV: WL5: 7S |
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