Usage of a Web-Based Platform for Home Care Providers in the Pandemic Context

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics - Public Health and Informatics ◽

10.3233/shti210360 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Virginia Sandulescu ◽

Sorin Puscoci ◽

Monica Petre ◽

Minodora Dumitrache ◽

Alexandru Girlea ◽

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Keyword(s):

Home Care ◽

Care Providers ◽

Web Based ◽

Home Care Providers

The paper presents the usage of a platform for home care providers that integrates telemonitoring functionalities in the context of the recent COVID-19 pandemic.

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Charles Patmore, Understanding Home Care Providers: Live Issues about Management, Quality and Relationships with Social Services Purchasers, Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, York, 2003, 96 pp., pbk £10.00, ISBN 1871713676. Heather Clark, Helen Gough and Ann Macfarlane, ‘It Pays Dividends’: Direct Payments and Older People, Policy Press, Bristol, 2004, 63 pp., pbk £14.95, ISBN 1 86134 580 1.

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x04242908 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 25 (01) ◽

pp. 136-138

Author(s):

ROSEMARY LITTLECHILD

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Home Care ◽

Older People ◽

Social Services ◽

Policy Research ◽

Research Unit ◽

Care Providers ◽

Management Quality ◽

Direct Payments ◽

Home Care Providers

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Long-term tracheostomy ventilation in Portugal: Survey based on home care providers

Pulmonology ◽

10.1016/j.pulmoe.2019.01.006 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 180 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Joao Carlos Winck

Keyword(s):

Home Care ◽

Care Providers ◽

Home Care Providers

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Informal home care providers: the forgotten health-care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Lancet ◽

10.1016/s0140-6736(20)31254-x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 395 (10242) ◽

pp. 1957-1959 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Emily Ying Yang Chan ◽

Nina Gobat ◽

Jean H Kim ◽

Elizabeth A Newnham ◽

Zhe Huang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Home Care ◽

Health Care Workers ◽

Care Providers ◽

Care Workers ◽

Home Care Providers

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Home Support Workers and Older Men: The Implications of Masculinity for Later Life Care

Men and Masculinities ◽

10.1177/1097184x18804308 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (3-4) ◽

pp. 618-635 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Rachel Barken ◽

Joanie Sims-Gould

Keyword(s):

Home Care ◽

Later Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Older Men ◽

Care Providers ◽

Home Support ◽

Male Clients ◽

Age Relations ◽

The Life Course ◽

Home Care Providers

With increased longevity, growing numbers of older men are using home support services. The provision of care by (mostly female) workers to male clients raises questions regarding the negotiation of gender and age relations in the private sphere of the home. In this article, we explore how home care providers confront and respond to masculinity when supporting older men. Our analysis is based on semistructured interviews with twenty-four home care providers in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We present four themes that demonstrate how masculinity is constructed and modified at the intersections of age, gender, and care: women and men are same, care and sexuality, taking control and accepting help, and health and well-being. While old age and the need for care present challenges to some aspects of masculinity, we find that many older men continue to engage in practices consistent with hegemonic versions of masculinity developed over the life course. Based on these findings, we make recommendations to equip workers with the resources needed to safely and effectively care for older men.

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