OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary clinical outcomes of a method to leverage existing home healthcare telemonitoring technology to deliver depression care management (DCM) to both Spanish- and English-speaking elderly homebound recipients of homecare services. MATERIALS AND METHODS Three stand-alone, nonprofit community homecare a...

Smart spaces foster the development of more natural and suitable forms of human-computer interaction taking advantage of customization possibilities offered by the home. The interaction chances of the Digital Home, as a special type of smart space, have a special interest in fields where the acceptance of new technologies is low and restrictive. Homecare is a discipline where this acceptance is...

Personalbrist har lett till att utrikesfödda kvinnor och män framhålls som en viktig rekryteringsbas inom äldreomsorgen. Därmed frågor om språkkunskaper blivit alltmer uppmärksammade.
 Syftet med denna studie var fokusera på hur hemtjänstchefer resonerar kring utmaningar när personal redan arbetar i hemtjänsten, eller vid rekrytering, brister det svenska språket. Studien är baserad semistr...

With the growing number of the elderly, we see a greater demand for home care, and the vision of pervasive computing is also floating into the domain of the household that aims to build a smart home which can assist inhabitants (users) to live more conveniently and harmoniously. Such health-care pervasive applications in smart home should focus on the inhabitant’s goal or task in diverse situat...

BACKGROUND Dementia care is predominantly provided by carers in home settings. We aimed to identify the priorities for homecare safety of people with dementia according to dementia health and social care professionals using a novel priority-setting method. METHODS The project steering group determined the scope, the context and the criteria for prioritization. We then invited 185 North-West L...

Keywords respiratory protection/respirators, personal protective equipment, health care worker/homecare worker, COVID-19

This study records the impact on workforce retention of the nearly doubling of wages for homecare workers in San Francisco County over a 52-month period. Using descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis I find that the annual retention rate of new providers rose from 39 percent to 74 percent following significant wage and benefit increases and that a $1 increase in the wage rate fr...