scholarly journals Home-Care Workers’ Representations of Their Role and Competences: A Diaphanous Profession

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diletta Gazzaroli ◽  
Chiara D’Angelo ◽  
Chiara Corvino
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Home Care Workers ◽  
Very High

Because of the gradual aging of the population, hospital facilities for socio-sanitary care of the elderly are quite scarce relative to the very high number of elderly people present in the country. This has pushed a high number of families to privately hire home-care workers. The scientific literature gives a picture of the psycho-physical risks that this type of profession is exposed to; however, there is still a need for a more systemic reflection with regard to representations about their role and competences. The aim of the present study is to outline the representations of the role and the skills it requires from home-care workers’ point of view. We reconstructed how home-care workers perceive and define the profession, and understand the necessary skills required from their point of view. Our results show that the professional profile of home-care workers still remains poorly defined and that professionals themselves struggle to find value and recognition, and to articulate what the skill set they develop is formed of.

Social Workers’ Attempts to Navigate Among the Elderly, Their Families, and Foreign Home Care Workers in the Haredi Community

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 617-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anat Freund ◽  
Tova Band-Winterstein
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological ◽  
Cultural Bridge ◽  
Home Care Workers

Background: The study’s aim is to examine social workers’ experience in facilitating the integration of foreign home care workers (FHCWs) into the ultraorthodox Jewish (UOJ) community for the purpose of treating older adults. Method: Using the qualitative-phenomenological approach, semistructured, in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 social workers in daily contact with UOJ older adult clients in the process of integrating FHCWs. Results: Data analysis revealed three central themes—integrating FHCWs into the aging UOJ family: barriers and challenges in the interaction between the two worlds; “even the rabbi has a FHCW”: changing trends in caring for older adults; and the social worker as mediator and facilitator of a successful relationship. Discussion: Social workers play a central role, serving as a cultural bridge in the process of integrating FHCWs, as a way of addressing the needs of ultraorthodox elderly and their families, while also considering the needs of the foreign workers.

scholarly journals Filipino Home Care Workers: Invisible Frontline Workers in the COVID-19 Crisis in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110004
Author(s):  
Katherine Nasol ◽  
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Home Care Workers

Filipino home care workers are at the frontlines of assisted living facilities and residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs), yet their work has largely been unseen. We attribute this invisibility to the existing elder care crisis in the United States, further exacerbated by COVID-19. Based on quantitative and qualitative data with Filipino workers before and during the COVID-19 crisis, we find that RCFEs have failed to comply with labor standards long before the pandemic where the lack of state regulation denied health and safety protections for home care workers. The racial inequities under COVID-19 via the neoliberal approach to the crisis puts home care workers at more risk. We come to this analysis through Critical Immigration Studies framing Filipino labor migration as it is produced by neoliberalism and Racial Capitalist constructs. Last, while the experiences of Filipino home care workers during the pandemic expose the elder care industry’s exploitation, we find that they are also creating strategies to take care of one another.

scholarly journals Carevolution project: New roles and competences for home care workers in the framework of integrated care of elderly people with chronic diseases

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 224
Author(s):  
Itziar Alvarez ◽  
Karmele Acedo ◽  
Marieke Meppelder ◽  
Davina Coupar ◽  
Olwen Kirkpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Integrated Care ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
Home Care Workers

Job-Related Stress and Coping Among Home-Care Workers with Elderly People

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Bartoldus ◽  
Beth Gillery ◽  
Phyllis J. Sturges
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Stress And Coping ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Related Stress ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Home Care Workers ◽  
Job Related Stress

“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.

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

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>

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