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ArticleJournal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society2025

How High-Performing Personal Support Workers Set and Maintain Boundaries When Providing Care: A Case Study in Ontario, Canada.

Elizabeth A Kalles, Emily C King, Paul Holyoke

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Article in Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elizabeth A KallesSE Research Centre, SE Health, Markham, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5270-4155
Emily C KingFaculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9398-5184
Paul HolyokeSE Research Centre, SE Health, Markham, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Personal support workers (PSWs) provide a large proportion of in-home care services for Canadians. PSWs must negotiate with clients and their family on how prescribed care is delivered. How PSWs set and maintain professional and personal boundaries during care is poorly understood, and failure to manage boundaries can expose both PSWs and clients to risk. High-performing PSWs (

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Home Care ServicesAdultDecision MakingFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOntariohealth human resourceshome- and community-based care and serviceshome carepersonal support workersqualitative methods

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PMID39636657
PMCPMC11622524

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