Toward Flexibility with Security for Migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Toronto and Los Angeles

2014 ◽  
pp. 173-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Cranford
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Care Workers

“Then They Trust You …”

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha Love ◽  
Felipe Tendick-Matesanz ◽  
Jane Thomason ◽  
Davine Carter ◽  
Myra Glassman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Physical Independence ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Communications Skills ◽  
Home Care Workers

The home care workforce, already at 2.7 million caregivers, will become the nation’s fastest growing occupation by 2024 as the senior boom generation accelerates the demand for in home services to meet its long-term care needs. The physically challenging work of assisting clients with intimate, essential acts of daily living places home care workers (HCWs) at risk for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs); yet, HCWs typically receive little formal job training and may lack appropriate assistive devices. In this qualitative pilot study, HCW focus groups described workplace MSD risk factors and identified problem-solving strategies to improve ergonomic conditions. The results revealed that HCWs rely on their behavioral insights, self-styled communications skills and caring demeanor to navigate MSD risks to themselves and increase clients’ physical independence of movement. We suggest changes in employer and government policies to acknowledge HCWs as valued team members in long-term care and to enhance their effectiveness as caregivers.

scholarly journals Mind-mindedness in out-of-home Care for Children: Implications for caregivers and child

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Colonnesi ◽  
Carolien Konijn ◽  
Leoniek Kroneman ◽  
Ramón J. L. Lindauer ◽  
Geert Jan J. M. Stams
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Trauma Symptoms ◽  
Emotional Symptoms ◽  
Out Of Home Care ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
And Behavior

AbstractMost out-of-home placed children have experienced early adversities, including maltreatment and neglect. A challenge for caregivers is to adequately interpret their foster child’s internal mental states and behavior. We examined caregivers’ mind-mindedness in out-of-home care, and the association among caregivers’ mind-mindedness (and its positive, neutral, and negative valence), recognition of the child’s trauma symptoms, and behavior problems. Participants (N = 138) were foster parents, family-home parents, and residential care workers. Caregivers’ mind-mindedness was assessed with the describe-your-child measure. Caregivers’ recognition of the child’s trauma symptoms, their child’s emotional symptoms, conduct problems, prosocial behavior, and quality of the caregiver-child relationship were assessed using caregivers’ reports. Foster parents produced more mental-state descriptors than did residential care workers. General mind-mindedness, as well as neutral and positive mind-mindedness, related negatively to conduct problems. Besides, positive mind-mindedness was associated with prosocial behavior and neutral mind-mindedness with a better quality of the caregiver-child relationship and fewer child conduct problems. Negative mind-mindedness related positively to the caregiver’s recognition of the child’s trauma symptoms, and indirectly, to emotional symptoms. In conclusion, mind-mindedness seems to be an essential characteristic of out-of-home caregivers, connected to the understanding of their child’s behavior problems and trauma symptoms, as well as to the relationship with the child. The findings suggest a possible use of mind-mindedness in out-of-home care evaluation and intervention.

ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF THE ECONOMIST IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Vestnik ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 313-316
Author(s):  
И.Г. Турсумбай ◽  
Л.К. Кошербаева
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Health Economics ◽  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Care Workers

Одним из последствий осуществления медицинской деятельности в разнообразных хозяйственных формах является изменение экономического положения работников здравоохранения. От количества и качества их труда зависит экономический результат деятельности лечебно-профилактических учреждений (ЛПУ) в целом. В статье приводится сравнительный анализ занимающихся подготовкой экономистов в области здравоохранения по различным критериям. Подчеркивается необходимость непрерывного совершенствования подготовки управленческих кадров в области экономики здравоохранения в современных условиях развития общества. One of the consequences of the implementation of medical activities in various economic forms is a change in the economic situation of health care workers. The number and quality of their work depends on the economic result of the activities of medical and preventive institutions (LPU) as a whole. The article presents a comparative analysis of the health economists who are engaged in training according to various criteria. The necessity of continuous improvement of training of managerial personnel in the field of health economics in the modern conditions of society development is emphasized.

Computer-Mediated Peer Support Needs of Home Care Workers: Emotional Labor & the Politics of Professionalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (CSCW2) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Anthony Poon ◽  
Vaidehi Hussain ◽  
Julia Loughman ◽  
Ariel C. Avgar ◽  
Madeline Sterling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Peer Support ◽  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Home Care Workers

Hospitals, Insurance, and the American Labor Movement: The Case of New York in the Postwar Decades

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rosner ◽  
Gerald Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Fringe Benefit ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Telephone Companies ◽  
Drug Companies ◽  
Care Workers

In the summer of 1989, an extended strike by the various “Baby Bell” telephone companies, including those of New York, Massachusetts, California, and thirteen other states in the Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast, brought to public attention the importance of health and hospital insurance to the nation's workers. In what theLos Angeles Timesheadline proclaimed was a “Phone Strike Centered on the Issue of Health Care,” workers at NYNEX, Pacific Bell, and Bell Atlantic went out on strike over management's insistence that the unions pay a greater portion of their hospital insurance premiums. In contrast to their willingness to grant wage concessions throughout most of the 1980s, the unions and their membership struck to protect what was once considered a “fringe” benefit of union membership. What had been a trivial cost to companies in the 1940s and 1950s had risen to 7.9 percent of payroll in 1984 and 13.6 percent by 1989. Unable to control the industry that had formed around hospitals, doctors, drug companies, and insurance, portions of the labor movement redefined its central mission: the fringes of the previous forty years were now central concerns. In the words of one local president engaged in the bitter communication workers strike: “‘It took us 40 years of collective bargaining’ to reach a contract in which the employer contributed [substantially to] the costs of health care, ‘and now they want to go in one fell swoop backward.’”

scholarly journals In-House Deep Environmental Sentience for Smart Homecare Solutions toward Ageing Society

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP EASOM ◽  
Ahmed Bouridane ◽  
Feiyu Qiang; ◽  
Li Zhang ◽  
Carolyn Downs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Maximum Speed ◽  
Base System ◽  
Ageing Society ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Real Time Applications

<p>With an increasing amount of elderly people needing home care around the clock, care workers are not able to keep up with the demand of providing maximum support to those who require it. As medical costs of home care increase the quality is care suffering as a result of staff shortages, a solution is desperately needed to make the valuable care time of these workers more efficient. This paper proposes a system that is able to make use of the deep learning resources currently available to produce a base system that could provide a solution to many of the problems that care homes and staff face today. Transfer learning was conducted on a deep convolutional neural network to recognize common household objects was proposed. This system showed promising results with an accuracy, sensitivity and specificity of 90.6%, 0.90977 and 0.99668 respectively. Real-time applications were also considered, with the system achieving a maximum speed of 19.6 FPS on an MSI GTX 1060 GPU with 4GB of VRAM allocated.<i></i></p>

scholarly journals Home care workers in heart failure: a systematic review

2018 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 481-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline R Sterling ◽  
Amy L Shaw ◽  
Peggy BK Leung ◽  
Monika M Safford ◽  
Christine Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Home Care Workers
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