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ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2021

Healthy Aging Requires a Healthy Home Care Workforce: the Occupational Safety and Health of Home Care Aides.

M M Quinn, P K Markkanen, C J Galligan, S R Sama, J E Lindberg, M F Edwards

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Review in Current environmental health reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. How to Address the Health of Home Care Workers: A Systematic Review of the Last Two Decades.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2023
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  10. How High-Performing Personal Support Workers Set and Maintain Boundaries When Providing Care: A Case Study in Ontario, Canada.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2025
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  13. Exploring the experiences of female undergraduate nursing students in providing home healthcare to older adults.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2024
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  14. The Safe Home Care Intervention Study: Implementation Methods and Effectiveness Evaluation.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

M M QuinnSafe Home Care Project, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 600 Suffolk Street, Suite 520, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA. Margaret_Quinn@uml.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-0544-9996
P K MarkkanenSafe Home Care Project, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 600 Suffolk Street, Suite 520, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.
C J GalliganSafe Home Care Project, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 600 Suffolk Street, Suite 520, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.
S R SamaSafe Home Care Project, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 600 Suffolk Street, Suite 520, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.
J E LindbergSafe Home Care Project, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 600 Suffolk Street, Suite 520, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.
M F EdwardsSafe Home Care Project, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell, 600 Suffolk Street, Suite 520, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA.

Funding

Sharps Injuries and Blood Exposure in Homes Health CareR01OH008229 · OH · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL · PI QUINN, MARGARET M · 2004 to 2022
$7.7M
ACL HHS R01OH008229NIOSH CDC HHS R01 OH008229
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewTo identify important home care (HC) aide occupational safety and health (OSH) hazards and examine how addressing these can improve aide health and the delivery of HC services overall. Specifically, this review seeks to answer: Why is HC aide OSH important? What are the most significant OSH challenges? How can improving HC aide OSH also improve the safety and health of their clients? What implications do the findings have for future research? RECENT

findingsHC is one of the fastest growing US industries. Aides comprise its largest workforce and are increasingly needed to care for the rapidly aging population. There is an aide shortage due in part to instabilities in HC work organization and to serious job-specific hazards, resulting in aides losing work time. Recent social, economic, and technological factors are rapidly changing the nature of HC work, creating OSH hazards similar to those found in nursing homes. At the same time, aides are experiencing social and economic inequities that increase their vulnerability to OSH hazards. These hazards are also a burden on employers who are challenged to recruit, retain, and train aides. OSH injuries and illness interrupt the continuity of care delivery to clients. Many OSH hazards also put HC clients and families at risk. A new framework and methodologies are needed to assess aide and client safety together in order to guide future HC research, policies, and practices. Government, industry, and labor commitment is needed to fund and coordinate a comprehensive, multidisciplinary research program.

Indexed as

Healthy AgingHome Care ServicesHome Health AidesOccupational HealthAgedHumansWorkforceHome careHome care aidesHome health aidesHome health careOccupational safety and healthPatient safety

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PMID33982149
PMCPMC8114970

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