Stress from working conditions among home care personnel with musculoskeletal symptoms

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Brulin ◽  
Anna Winkvist ◽  
Stivia Langendoen
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms

scholarly journals Home care in dementia: The views of informal carers from a co-designed consultation

Dementia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 147130122199050
Author(s):  
Elizabeth L Dalgarno ◽  
Vincent Gillan ◽  
Amy Roberts ◽  
Jean Tottie ◽  
David Britt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Electronic Survey ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Dementia Research ◽  
Informal Carers ◽  
A Current

Background In the United Kingdom, there is a current priority for high-quality dementia care provided at home. However, home care or domiciliary care is an area where problems have been reported, in terms of a lack of consistency, coordination and appropriate responses to the specific needs of those with dementia. The views of informal carers, who often must respond to these problems when supporting relatives, are crucial in shedding light on the issues and in seeking to promote solutions. Methods This study explored the views of informal carers of those with dementia concerning home care, through a consultation using an electronic survey. The survey questions were designed by informal carers, through a public involvement group within an existing programme of dementia research. The survey elicited responses from 52 informal carers in 2017/18. The data were analysed qualitatively using framework analysis. Findings Carers’ views focused on the need for investment into meaningful personalisation, recognising the value of providing care and valuing formal carers, systemic failings of care coordination and provision and the importance of ongoing collaboration and care planning. Conclusion Based on a framework drawn from the views of informal carers themselves, this study articulated issues of concern for home care and its delivery for people with dementia. Attempts should be made to make dementia home care more consistently personalised, inclusive and collaborative with informal carers and key others involved. Further areas to explore include working conditions of formal carers and current models utilised in homecare provision.

scholarly journals Self-rated health and working conditions among workers from primary health care centers in Brazil

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 971-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Posenato Garcia ◽  
Doroteia Aparecida Höfelmann ◽  
Luiz Augusto Facchini
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽  
Primary Care Center ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Centers ◽  
Health Care Centers

This cross-sectional study with 1,249 workers from all 49 municipal primary health care centers was conducted in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil, with the objective of investigating the prevalence of poor self-rated health and its association with working conditions and other factors. Multivariate statistical analyses were conducted using Poisson regression. The prevalence of poor self-rated health was 21.86% (95%CI: 19.56%-24.15%). The largest prevalence was found among dental assistants (35.71%), and the lowest among physicians (10.66%). In the adjusted analysis, the outcome was associated with female gender (PR = 1.48; 95%CI: 1.03-2.14), older age (PR = 1.29; 95%CI: 1.05-1.59), higher education (PR = 0.69; 95%CI: 0.55-0.87), more time working at the primary care center (PR = 1.57; 95%CI: 1.29-1.98), higher workload score (PR = 1.67; 95%CI: 1.35-2.05), obesity (PR = 1.74; 95%CI: 1.37-2.21), and often or always experiencing musculoskeletal symptoms (PR = 2.69; 95%CI: 1.90-3.83). A higher workload score remained associated with the outcome, suggesting an association between working conditions and self-rated health.

Formalizing the Informal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Romina Guevarra ◽  
Lolita Andrada Lledo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Improve Working ◽  
Living Wages ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Many ◽  
Home Care Workers

This chapter examines the informal economy of Filipina care workers in southern California, with particular emphasis on their pragmatic and survival consciousness that enables them to perform skilled work and at the same time negotiate the meaning of this work for themselves as well as the material and familial realities of their lives. Cultivating this pragmatic and survival consciousness among Filipino caregivers is central to the work of the Pilipino Workers Center (PWC), a low-wage, worker-based, grassroots social justice organization that primarily serves Los Angeles's low-income Filipino community. The chapter discusses the PWC's campaign called Caregivers Organizing for Unity, Respect, and Genuine Empowerment (COURAGE), which seeks to address the many needs of the Filipino caregivers. It also considers the Homecare Workers Cooperative (the COURAGE Co-Op) that aims to offer its employees (primarily low-income Filipino immigrant caregivers) living wages and health benefits, improve working conditions, bring home-care workers out of isolation, and connect them to a larger community.

Physical and Psychosocial Work-related Risk Factors Associated with Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Home Care Personnel

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Brulin ◽  
Björn Gerdle ◽  
Brittmarie Granlund ◽  
Jonas Höög ◽  
Anders Knutson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽  
Psychosocial Work ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Risk

Ergonomics in Home Care

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (26) ◽  
pp. 275-275
Author(s):  
Rose-Ange Proteau
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Eastern Canada ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Average Work ◽  
Work Accidents ◽  
Home Care Workers

Home care workers are generally alone when they assist patients. They are often forced to work in uncomfortable and unsafe positions, because bathtubs and beds are too low. On average, work accidents involving workers in the home are more serious than those in institutions. In Quebec, (province in Eastern Canada), training and prevention programs have been implemented to improve these difficult working conditions in the past ten years.

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