Given Canada's aging population, the demand for home care is expected to increase
significantly. To date, little is known about home care for older adults in Canada such as …

Background Home care is a rapidly growing industry. Violence towards home care workers
is common, while also likely underreported. This violence adversely affects the physical and …

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent state of public emergency have significantly
affected older adults in Canada and worldwide. It is imperative that the gerontological …

Background Due to the increasingly ageing society and the shortage of nursing human
resources in China, the imbalance between the home care needs of older patients and the …

Using survey data collected in Ontario, Canada, we explore the impacts of autonomy on
community-based Personal Support Workers' intrinsic job satisfaction, capacity to care for …

Objective Drawing on interviews with home care clients and their family caregivers, we
sought to understand how these individuals conceptualize safety in the provision and receipt …

Home healthcare work is physically and emotionally exhausting. In addition, home
healthcare workers frequently work under precarious work arrangements for low wages and …

BACKGROUND: Patient handling activities require caregivers to adopt postures that
increase the risk of back injury. Training programs relying primarily on didactic methods …

Abstract Background and Objectives An increasing number of older adults are aging in
place in public housing. Public housing is perceived to have higher rates of crime that have …

In Canada, home care provides health and social services to an estimated one million
people, most of them older adults. In the absence of national policy directives, services vary …