Home care in Canada
Home care in Canada: Working at the nexus of public and private sphere
Project Goals - What are we doing?
This study examines the role of home support and community health workers employed through Home Care agencies in the continuum of care to community-dwelling elderly persons receiving post-acute or chronic care. Our research has three areas of focus: home support workers, elderly clients and family members.Research Outcomes - What will be achieved?
This study focuses on three intersecting sets of issues: the mechanisms by which home support workers negotiate the private sphere of client's homes and families versus the public world of health services; the issues facing home support workers in relation to perceptions of professional and non-professional roles and relationships with employers and co-workers, as well as elderly clients and their unpaid caregivers; the balance of the emotional versus contractual nature of the 'care' relationship with elderly clients; prevalence of the use of unpaid time to meet client needs.