HANDBOOK FOR HOME HEALTH AIDES

An overview of home health aides: United States, 2007.

OBJECTIVES This report presents national estimates of home health aides providing assistance in activities of daily living (ADLs) and employed by agencies providing home health and hospice care in 2007. Data are presented on demographics, training, work environment, pay and benefits, use of public benefits, and injuries. METHODS Estimates are based on data collected in the 2007 National Home ...

Occupational health of home care aides: results of the safe home care survey.

OBJECTIVES In countries with ageing populations, home care (HC) aides are among the fastest growing jobs. There are few quantitative studies of HC occupational safety and health (OSH) conditions. The objectives of this study were to: (1) assess quantitatively the OSH hazards and benefits for a wide range of HC working conditions, and (2) compare OSH experiences of HC aides who are employed via ...

From the heart: thank you to home health, home care, and hospice aides!

Building Health Promotion into the Job of Home Care Aides: Transformation of the Workplace Health Environment

Home care aides (HCAs), predominantly women, constitute one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States. HCAs work in clients' homes that lack typical workplace resources and benefits. This mixed-methods study examined how HCAs' work environment was transformed by a pilot workplace health promotion program that targeted clients as well as workers. The intervention started with train...

Home care aides in the administration of medication.

OBJECTIVE To assess to what extent home care aides (HCAs) within the social services are engaged in medication administration, including their knowledge of how to perform this work correctly, and also to assess their knowledge of pharmacology, adverse drug effects, diseases, and symptoms. Furthermore, we wanted to study if there were any changes to be seen in these areas since a previous study....