Home Health Aides
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Psychosocial factors contributing to occupational injuries among direct care workers.

30 Jul 2009 Direct care workers have the highest injury rate in the United States, primarily due to work-related musculoskeletal disorders. This study examined the effect of psychosocial factors (i.e., stress, job satisfaction, organizational climate, safety ... Read more...

Criterion validity of a home health aide's algorithm for recommending bathroom equipment.

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Occupational therapists are experts at adapting bathroom environments. However, to increase access to services, the algorithm "Préalables aux soins d'hygiène" (French for "Prerequisites for bathing care") has been developed to be used by ... Read more...

Occupational blood exposure among unlicensed home care workers and home care registered nurses: are they protected?

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Little is known about the risk of blood exposure among personnel providing care to individual patients residing at home. The objective of this study was to document and compare blood exposure risks among unlicensed home care personal ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Home Health Aides'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Psychosocial factors contributing to occupational injuries among direct care workers. 30 Jul 2009
• Criterion validity of a home health aide's algorithm for recommending bathroom equipment. 29 Jun 2009
• Occupational blood exposure among unlicensed home care workers and home care registered nurses: are they protected? 29 Jun 2009
• [Social life auxiliary in an aide association and home care services. Interview by Gilles Guillard] 29 Jun 2009
• Formative research in occupational health and safety intervention for diverse, underserved worker populations: a homecare worker intervention project. 29 Jun 2009
• Fears come true: the experiences of older care recipients and their family members of live-in foreign home care workers. 20 Jun 2009
• Medication management: evidence brief. Center for Home Care Policy & Research. 30 May 2009
• [Analysis of background factors influencing in-home patient adherence: comparison between true adherence and predicted adherence by home-helpers] 30 May 2009
• Technology and home care: implementing systems to enhance aging in place. 30 May 2009
• Protecting home health care workers: a challenge to pandemic influenza preparedness planning. 19 May 2009
• Beliefs and practices regarding Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among Filipino home care workers in Israel. 29 Apr 2009
• Banned from working in social care: a secondary analysis of staff characteristics and reasons for their referrals to the POVA list in England and Wales. 10 Feb 2009
• Advances and issues in personal care. 30 Jan 2009
• Casualized employment and turnover intention: home care workers in Ontario, Canada. 26 Jan 2009
• Blinded by degrees. 30 Dec 2008
• Differences between day and nonday workers in exposure to physical and psychosocial work factors in the Danish eldercare sector. 30 Dec 2008
• Safety factors predictive of job satisfaction and job retention among home healthcare aides. 29 Nov 2008
• Evaluating the working conditions and exposure to abuse of Filipino home care workers in Israel: characteristics and clinical correlates. 29 Nov 2008
• Clients' and workers' perceptions on clients' functional ability and need for help: home care in municipalities. 14 Oct 2008
• The relation of patient dependence to home health aide use in Alzheimer's disease. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Home Health Aides'

Definition: Persons who assist ill, elderly, or disabled persons in the home, carrying out personal care and housekeeping tasks. (From Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms. 2d ed, p202)

Descriptor UI: D018576

Alternative terms: Home Health Aides; Aide, Home Health; Aides, Home Health; Health Aide, Home; Health Aides, Home; Home Health Aide; Homemaker-Home Health Aides; Aide, Homemaker-Home Health; Aides, Homemaker-Home Health; Health Aide, Homemaker-Home; Health Aides, Homemaker-Home; Homemaker Home Health Aides; Homemaker-Home Health Aide; Home Care Aides; Aide, Home Care; Aides, Home Care; Care Aide, Home; Care Aides, Home; Home Care Aide;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; education; psychology;

Tree Number: M01.526.485.067.350; N02.360.067.350;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: coord IM with specific home health care (IM)