Work Organization and Health Among Home Care Workers

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• Personal Author:
  Lipscomb, Jane A. ; Muntaner C ; Trinkoff A
• Description:
  The home care industry is the fastest growing industry in the United States. The number of elderly that will depend on long term care will double from about 7 to 14 million Americans by the year 2020. Many of these elders elect to stay at home and are able to avoid costly institutionalization when home care services are provided. Thus, the demand for a wide range of home care services has increased. Home care is defined as "an array of services that enables clients incapacitated in whole or in part to live at home, often with the effect of delaying, or substituting for long term care or acute care alternatives". Home care includes both technical health care (nursing and therapy) as well as support services (such as personal care, homemaking, housekeeping). About 1.2 million home care aides provide the bulk of home care services in the US, up from 875,000 in 1995, thus constituting the key health service resource for millions of elderly. Home care aides may experience multiple physical and emotional demands. These include lifting heavy patients in and out of bed or the bathtub without the support of lifting devices, attachment to ailing clients, bearing with the suffering of those who are very ill or near death, having to provide emotional support to lonely elderly clients who often suffer from mental disorders, and inability to provide emotional support to clients because of competing work demands. These work demands can result in workplace injuries (e.g. overexertion injuries from lifting, and psychiatric symptoms from emotional distress). The physical and emotional well being of home care clients is often dependent on the physical and mental health of home care aides. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Mental Health Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Workplace
• Keywords:
  Emotional-stress Health-care Health-care-personnel Health-services Job-analysis Job-stress Medical-personnel Medical-services Psychological-effects Psychological-reactions Psychological-stress Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-organization Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-48
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039760
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-100252
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R01-OH-007440, 2006 Dec; :1-48
• Contact Point Address:
  Carles Muntaner, MD, PhD, 155 College Street, Rm· 260 Toronto Ontario M5T 1T8
• Email:
  Carles.muntaner@utoronto.ca
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  University of Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20060929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218436/cdc_218436_DS1.pdf
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