Interventions to Reduce the Impact of Client Death on Home Care Aides: Employers’ Perspectives

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• Personal Author:
  Boerner K ; Cimarolli VR ; Franzosa E ; LaMonica M ; Reckrey JM ; Tsui EK
• Description:
  For home care agencies and aides, the death of clients has important, yet often unrecognized, workforce implications. While research demonstrates that client death can cause grief and job insecurity for aides, we currently lack home care agencies' perspectives on this issue and approaches to addressing it. This study uses key informant interviews with leaders from a diverse sample of eight New York City home care agencies to explore facilitators and barriers to agency action. We found that agencies engaged primarily in a range of informal, reactive practices related to client death, and relatively few targeted and proactive efforts to support aides around client death. While leaders generally acknowledged a need for greater aide support, they pointed to a lack of sustainable home care financing and policy resources to fund this. We recommend increased funding to support wages, paid time off, and supportive services, and discuss implications for future research. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Home Care Services Mental Health Mortality Nervous System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: End Of Life Fatalities Health Care Workers Home Care Home Health Care Mental Health Qualitative Methods Stress Workforce
• ISSN:
  0733-4648
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Massachusetts ; New York ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  332-340
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062158
• Citation:
  J Appl Gerontol 2022 Feb; 41(2):332-340
• Contact Point Address:
  Emma K. Tsui, Department of Community Health & Social Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, The City University of New York, 55 W. 125th Street, 7th Floor, New York City, NY 10027, USA
• Email:
  emma.tsui@sph.cuny.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20190901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Applied Gerontology
• End Date:
  20220831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dd26584f87717ab551c502e5791e32d2f690f34a704b011caa6ce5af257a485a1e05418e03aa4ac4ee7b1a5bcdfadb6713b79d983913d16395e32ee6e734e43e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/225460/cdc_225460_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.40 MB ]