Home Care Aides' Voices From the Field

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

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....

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 ...

Sludge victims: voices from the field.

Individuals around the country are filing reports of adverse health effects they say are related to exposures to sludge. This article reviews some of those reports as well as officials' reactions and responses to them.

Sectoral perspectives Voices from the field