Perceived Stress and Health Among Home Care Aides: Caring for Older Clients in a Medicaid-Funded Home Care Program

Details

• Personal Author:
  Lukyanova VV ; Muramatsu N ; Sokas RK ; Zanoni J
• Description:
  Home care aides (HCAs) provide housekeeping and personal care services to help older clients remain in the community. However, little is known about the health of HCAs, who themselves constitute an underserved population. The goal of this study was to investigate how HCAs' work and life contexts manifest themselves in HCAs' health as perceived by HCAs. Six focus groups were conducted with HCAs (N=45). Analysis revealed how HCAs' work- and life- related stress accumulated over time and affected HCAs' health and interaction with their older clients. Home care aides were interested in personal health promotion and client well- being. Home care aides may constitute an underused resource for the care of older adults with disabilities. Information about intricately intertwined work and life contexts should inform policymakers and home care providers in their efforts to improve the quality of publicly funded home care services. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Demography Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Promotion Home Care Services Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Age Factors Author Keywords: Long- Term Care Caregivers Demographic Characteristics Employee Satisfaction Focus Groups Frail Elderly Health Care Health Programs Health Promotion Health Services Home Care Aides Home Care Services Home Health Care Job Stress Job Task Enrichment Life Stress Medicaid Occupational Stress Patient Handling Stress Stress Analysis Underserved Populations Vulnerable Populations Work-life Balance Worker Health

  More +
• ISSN:
  1049-2089
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Illinois ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058123
• Citation:
  J Health Care Poor Underserved 2019 May; 30(2):721-738
• Contact Point Address:
  Naoko Muramatsu, Division of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health, 1603 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612
• Email:
  naoko@uic.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Chicago
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8e2a2acf5ae55f2fd318e7ff51f848e9f4481017973676efce5568a33484c9cda74c3f4a241bb536176a2b77850255d5684f437fe7d54207da526e79e17490a4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221269/cdc_221269_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 371.97 KB ]