scholarly journals Survey of the Demand for Care Services for the Elderly and the Training Needs of their Care Workers: A Case Study in Northeast China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuqin Li ◽  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Yan Liu ◽  
Ai-ping Wang ◽  
Guixing Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Medical Staff ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Training System ◽  
Nursing Assistants ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Practical Training ◽  
Care Workers

Abstract Background: The elderly are increasingly pursuing professional healthcare services,paying attention to the training of their workers is necessary to satisfying the growing needs of them. This study aimed to investigate the care service needs for the elderly and the training needs of their care workers. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire was conducted of 589 elderly people from 6 nursing institutions and 2 geriatric hospitals, 415 medical staff from 7 geriatric hospitals, 5 nursing homes, and 1 community institution, and 372 nursing assistants from 21 nursing institutions in northeast China.Results: The service with the greatest demand and that with which users were most satisfied was regular visits by medical personnel, which was the case for 87.27% of the elderly subjects. Of the medical staff, 75.42% had training needs related to healthcare for the elderly, while the most requested training content was of comprehensive assessment of the elderly. The most requested method for the delivery of training was by self-study online video courses. Of nursing assistants, only 53.4% had obtained the relevant practicing certificate. While 83.6% participated in relevant training, 86% expressed the need for additional training. The majority of these personnel wished to receive training in everyday care routines, and the majority wanted to learn by way of practical training.Conclusions: The care needs of the elderly are diverse, and the work performed by elderly care practitioners is increasing in scope. The existing training system for elderly care personnel is not perfect, and the demand for the training of relevant personnel is high. Existing training methods and content require improvement.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Climatic Condition Suitability for Elderly Care Industry Development in Prefecture-Level Cities in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9308
Author(s):  
Mengyuan Wang ◽  
Xiaoming Qi ◽  
Zehong Li ◽  
Maogui Hu
Keyword(s):  
Northeast China ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Tibet Plateau ◽  
East China ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
Suitable Temperature

The demand for elderly care in China is growing, and the elderly care industry has great development prospects. Climatic conditions are important factors that affect the health of elderly individuals and the development of the elderly care industry. This study will have important guiding significance for the layout of China’s elderly care industry. This paper utilizes ArcGIS and the spatial fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method to analyze the climatic suitability for the development of the elderly care industry in China’s four municipalities, the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan regions, and 333 prefecture-level administrative regions based on six factors: temperature, humidity, airflow, air pressure, sunshine, and precipitation. In addition, development suggestions are proposed. The results show the following. (1) The areas with highly suitable climatic conditions for the development of the elderly care industry in China are concentrated in the eastern and southern areas of Southwest China and the southern areas of Central and East China, mainly in the Yangtze and Pearl River Basins. Slightly suitable areas are distributed around highly suitable areas, concentrated in the central and southern regions of China. Low-suitability areas are clustered, including an area spanning northern North China and East China, southern Northeast China, and central Northwest China, and there is another cluster in Xinjiang. The non-suitable area resembles a strip extending from Northeast China along the Inner Mongolia Plateau to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. (2) In Central and Southwest China, there are 57 prefecture-level administrative units with highly suitable temperature conditions that can develop an elderly care industry for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Twenty-eight prefecture-level administrative regions with comprehensively suitable temperature and humidity conditions scattered throughout the country can develop an elderly care industry for elderly patients suffering from rheumatic and respiratory diseases.

scholarly journals Using Trend Extrapolation Model to Predict the Needs of Elderly Care Talents in Beijing Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 233 ◽  
pp. 01168
Author(s):  
Aijia Song ◽  
Zhaoqi Peng
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Population Aging ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Extrapolation Model

2020-2050 is a period of rapid development of China's population aging, and it is also a critical period for the country to actively respond to population aging. Under the background of the combination of medical care and nursing, institutional elderly care services, as an important branch of the multi-level elderly care service system, have become the main battlefield of the integrated medical and elderly care policy. Therefore, institutional care talents for the aged have also become a key link in improving the quality of life of the elderly population. This paper using trend extrapolation model to predict the needs of elderly care talents in institutions in Beijing, including nursing staff who provide basic living care and professional medical staff who provide services such as rehabilitation, medical treatment, nutrition, and psychological consultation. The results show that, in 2050, the demand for institutional elderly nursing staff in Beijing will exceed 150,000, and the demand for institutional elderly medical staff will reach about 20,000.

Corpus-assisted analysis of the collocational profiles of the terms denoting elderly care workers

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Russo
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
External Actors ◽  
Assisted Analysis ◽  
Care Worker ◽  
Insight Into

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the terms used in the Macmillan Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary to identify the people who are paid to provide care to the elderly and check their presence in a corpus – professional home care (PHC) – of three UK-based specialised websites. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on the frameworks and methods of corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis (Baker, 2006). The terms were extracted from a corpus of British websites of companies providing PHC services. Findings This study highlights that in the PHC corpus, the words “caregiver” and “carer” are used as synonyms at the level of popular communication, whereas “care assistant” and “care worker” are used for intra-specialistic communication. The analysis also points out the variations in terminology observed in the corpora that are intended for different communication contexts, e.g. how professionals define themselves compared to how external actors identify them. Originality/value This paper provides insight into the terminological aspects of caregiving in the professional field through a corpus-based study on specialised terminology integrating lexicographic considerations. This methodological framework can capture the sociolinguistic attitudes of speakers.

scholarly journals Migrant care workers in elderly care: what a study of media representations suggests about Sweden as a caring democracy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Sandra Torres ◽  
Jonas Lindblom
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Appropriate Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Egalitarian Society ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This article sheds light on the ways in which migrant care workers in the elderly care sector were represented in Swedish daily newspaper articles published between 1995 and 2017 (n = 370); it uses the notions of the “ethics of care” and “caring democracy” as a prism through which the findings can be made sense of. By bringing attention to the fact that they are often described as the solution par excellence to the staffing crisis Swedish elderly care is experiencing, this article draws attention to portrayals of these workers as people who are  both particularly good at caring and capable of providing culture-appropriate care. Thus, although depicted as “particular Others,” these workers are represented as an asset to the sector – a sector that is thought to offer much needed but highly undervalued services. By bringing attention to both of these representations, and using the theoretical and conceptual framework “ethics of care” formulated by Tronto, the article questions whether Sweden – a country often described as the epitome of an egalitarian society – can be regarded as a caring democracy.

Maintaining Formation of Multiple Robotic Wheelchairs for Smooth Communication

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (05) ◽  
pp. 1640005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryota Suzuki ◽  
Yoshinori Kobayashi ◽  
Yoshinori Kuno ◽  
Taichi Yamada ◽  
Keiichi Yamazaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Natural Formation ◽  
Traditional Setting ◽  
Robotic Wheelchairs ◽  
Mental And Physical Health ◽  
Robotic Wheelchair

To meet the demands of an aging society, research on intelligent/robotic wheelchairs have been receiving a lot of attention. In elderly care facilities, care workers are required to communicate with the elderly in order to maintain both their mental and physical health. While this is regarded as important, having a conversation with someone on a wheelchair while pushing it from behind in a traditional setting would interfere with their smooth and natural conversation. So we are developing a robotic wheelchair system which allows companions and wheelchair users to move in a natural formation. This paper reports on an investigation to learn the patterns of human behavior when the wheelchair users and their companions communicate while walking together. The ethnographic observation reveals a natural formation of positioning for both companions and wheelchair users. Based on this investigation, we propose a multiple robotic wheelchair system which can maintain desirable formations for communication between wheelchairs.

scholarly journals Homocysteine increases the risk of mortality in elderly individuals

2007 ◽  
Vol 97 (6) ◽  
pp. 1138-1143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia González ◽  
José M. Huerta ◽  
Serafina Fernández ◽  
Ángeles M. Patterson ◽  
Cristina Lasheras
Keyword(s):  
Cox Regression ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Subjects ◽  
Vitamin B ◽  
Study Cohort ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Risk Of Mortality ◽  
Increased Risk

Although total plasma homocysteine (tHcy) has been extensively studied as a risk factor of CVD, longitudinal evidence on its association with mortality is scarce, especially among the elderly. The study cohort consisted of 215 subjects (eighty-eight male and 127 female), aged 60 years or older, recruited in fourteen elderly care institutions from Asturias (Spain). All participants were free of major chronic pathology and took no vitamin and/or mineral supplements. Baseline determinations included tHcy in plasma and folate, vitamin B12and Se in serum. Survival analyses were performed by quintiles of these factors after 6 years (mean follow-up time 4·3 years) by means of Cox regression models. During follow-up time sixty participants died. tHcy above 16·7 μmol/l was associated with an increased risk of mortality in the sample (relative risk 2·30 (95 % CI 1·02, 5·17)). Among the nutritional determinants of tHcy evaluated, folate and Se were not predictive of death risk of the cohort, while vitamin B12showed inconsistent results. Nevertheless, mortality was significantly lower at higher serum Se levels (upper quintile), but this effect was restricted to women. Higher tHcy in both sexes and lower serum Se in women were found to be independently associated with an increased risk of death in elderly subjects.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Elderly Care Work That Influence Care Workers’ Turnover Intentions

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 259
Author(s):  
Jeongmi Lim
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Labor ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Government Supervision ◽  
Care Workers

Turnover and retention of care workers in long-term care (LTC) settings is an important issue. However, much research about turnover in LTC settings has focused on licensed nurses or nurse assistants. Moreover, many studies have utilized quantitative methods. The purpose of this study was to understand the characteristics of elderly care work that influence the turnover intentions of care workers in LTC. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 care workers and analyzed using the content analysis method. As a result, seven categories were extracted as the characteristics of the elderly care work associated with turnover, including low social appreciation about care work, precarious employment, unprotected labor rights and safety, an unfair wage system, unclear scope and role of work, absence of training and supervision to enhance professionalism, and emotional labor. For the turnover prevention and retention of care workers, it is necessary to resolve the insecurity of care work. In particular, guidelines for improving the wage level and working conditions of care workers should be instituted, and at the same time, government supervision is required. Education is necessary to strengthen the professionalism of care workers and ensure skilled care work.

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