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HEALTHY AGING IN PLACE REQUIRES A HEALTHY HOME CARE WORKFORCE: THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF PAID CAREGIVERS

Home care (HC) aides provide health and personal care services that enable older adults to live at home as they age. Aides are increasingly in demand as our population ages rapidly. Yet there is an aide shortage due in part to instabilities in HC work organization and to occupational safety and heal...

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Autores principales: Quinn, Margaret, Markkanen, Pia, Sama, Susan, Galligan, Catherine, Lindberg, John, Gore, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9765183/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.628
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author Quinn, Margaret
Markkanen, Pia
Sama, Susan
Galligan, Catherine
Lindberg, John
Gore, Rebecca
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description Home care (HC) aides provide health and personal care services that enable older adults to live at home as they age. Aides are increasingly in demand as our population ages rapidly. Yet there is an aide shortage due in part to instabilities in HC work organization and to occupational safety and health (OSH) hazards, resulting in aides losing work time or leaving their jobs. Aide injuries and illness interrupt the continuity of care delivery and HC hazards can put clients and family caregivers at risk. This research synthesizes recent findings of aide OSH studies in order to identify risks and preventive interventions to improve both HC aide and client safety. Mixed methods were used to characterize aide OSH hazards including needlesticks, musculoskeletal strain, experiences of violence, COVID-19 and other infections and harmful disinfection practices. Improving aide OSH can contribute to improved care services enabling older adults to live at home.
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spelling pubmed-97651832022-12-20 HEALTHY AGING IN PLACE REQUIRES A HEALTHY HOME CARE WORKFORCE: THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF PAID CAREGIVERS Quinn, Margaret Markkanen, Pia Sama, Susan Galligan, Catherine Lindberg, John Gore, Rebecca Innov Aging Abstracts Home care (HC) aides provide health and personal care services that enable older adults to live at home as they age. Aides are increasingly in demand as our population ages rapidly. Yet there is an aide shortage due in part to instabilities in HC work organization and to occupational safety and health (OSH) hazards, resulting in aides losing work time or leaving their jobs. Aide injuries and illness interrupt the continuity of care delivery and HC hazards can put clients and family caregivers at risk. This research synthesizes recent findings of aide OSH studies in order to identify risks and preventive interventions to improve both HC aide and client safety. Mixed methods were used to characterize aide OSH hazards including needlesticks, musculoskeletal strain, experiences of violence, COVID-19 and other infections and harmful disinfection practices. Improving aide OSH can contribute to improved care services enabling older adults to live at home. Oxford University Press 2022-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9765183/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.628 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. 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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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HEALTHY AGING IN PLACE REQUIRES A HEALTHY HOME CARE WORKFORCE: THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF PAID CAREGIVERS
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title_short HEALTHY AGING IN PLACE REQUIRES A HEALTHY HOME CARE WORKFORCE: THE SAFETY AND HEALTH OF PAID CAREGIVERS
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