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Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides
Home-based care is a rapidly growing sector becoming more important to individuals, families, providers, and payers. The ways in which agencies create the work environment for home care aides who are essentially in their clients’ homes is not adequately documented and may be changing rapidly with la...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682183/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.834 |
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description | Home-based care is a rapidly growing sector becoming more important to individuals, families, providers, and payers. The ways in which agencies create the work environment for home care aides who are essentially in their clients’ homes is not adequately documented and may be changing rapidly with labor market innovations. This qualitative study describes how different home care business models (e.g., non-profit VNAs, for-profit franchises, uber-style matching, worker-owned coops) address job design and the overall work environment for home care aides. Interviews with employers and focus groups with home care aides examine workplace practices, how work is organized and supported when the workforce is virtual and the workplace is a client’s home, and the perceived attributes of a positive workplace environment across business models. This study fills significant knowledge gaps about home care workplace design and the role of agencies in creating a supportive environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-86821832021-12-17 Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides Bryant, Natasha Stone, Robyn Hennessa, Alex Innov Aging Abstracts Home-based care is a rapidly growing sector becoming more important to individuals, families, providers, and payers. The ways in which agencies create the work environment for home care aides who are essentially in their clients’ homes is not adequately documented and may be changing rapidly with labor market innovations. This qualitative study describes how different home care business models (e.g., non-profit VNAs, for-profit franchises, uber-style matching, worker-owned coops) address job design and the overall work environment for home care aides. Interviews with employers and focus groups with home care aides examine workplace practices, how work is organized and supported when the workforce is virtual and the workplace is a client’s home, and the perceived attributes of a positive workplace environment across business models. This study fills significant knowledge gaps about home care workplace design and the role of agencies in creating a supportive environment. Oxford University Press 2021-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8682183/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.834 Text en © The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Bryant, Natasha Stone, Robyn Hennessa, Alex Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides |
title | Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides |
title_full | Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides |
title_fullStr | Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides |
title_full_unstemmed | Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides |
title_short | Job Design for Home Care Work: Perspectives From Employers and Home Care Aides |
title_sort | job design for home care work: perspectives from employers and home care aides |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8682183/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igab046.834 |
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