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Home-care workers: work conditions and occupational exclusion
— a comparison between carers on early-retirement and regular pensions | | Author(s) | Gunnar Aronsson, Wanja Astvik, Ann-Britt Thulin |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 17, no 2, 1998 |
| Pages | pp 71-91 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Home care services ; Personnel ; Retirement ; Early retirement ; Conditions of employment ; Job satisfaction ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | The aim of this Swedish study was to identify conditions associated with occupational exclusion from home-caring. In a group of 346 home-care workers who responded to a questionnaire, there were 18 newly-retired carers in early retirement/disability pensions, and 28 carers who had just taken regular retirement. A discriminant analysis was conducted to identify work conditions that differentiated the two groups. The results showed that a number of variables - functional impairment (pain when doing physical work), psychosomatic complaints, and nature of relationship with/attitude to clients - significantly differentiated the two groups. When the discriminant coefficients were applied to other groups - older full-time and part-time employees, carers who had undergone job transfers, and carers on long-term sick leave - the order of groups by discriminant-point score was largely as expected. The results are discussed in relation to dilemmas, psychological demands and organisational circumstances prevailing in home care work. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981120412 A |
| Classmark | NH: QM: G3: G5M: WKA: WL5: 76P |
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