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| A job profile of home helps in the Netherlands | | Author(s) | S E J Arts, A Kerkstra, H Huyer Abu-Saad |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 6, no 6, November 1998 |
| Pages | pp 397-406 |
| Keywords | Home care services ; Personnel ; Job requirements ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | In view of the many changes in home care in the Netherlands, a national study on home help services was carried out. One of the aims was to examine the job content of six new categories of home help, the differences in their work and the correspondence of daily practice with formal job descriptions. Six home help categories were examined: alpha helps; A home helps; B caring helps; C and D carers, and specialised E carers. For a period of four weeks, 458 home helps recorded on forms all the activities they had carried out during and outside home visits. Findings showed that the daily work of alpha helps, A home helps and B caring helps mainly involves housework and psychosocial/supportive activities, whilst B caring helps also carry out some personal care and C carers do some housework, personal care and psychosocial or supportive activities. The main work of D carers consists of personal care and psychosocial activities. Specialised E carers mainly carry out psychosocial activities, but also do housework, mostly together with the client. It is concluded that an adjustment to formal job descriptions relating to the daily practice of home helps is required, as well as more time for the extra activities they have to carry out. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981130401 A |
| Classmark | NH: QM: WJA: 76H |
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