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Building a peer mentor home health aide program: implications for home health aide retention.

The Home Health Aide (HHA) industry is challenged with low wages, little possibility of career advancement, and high turnover rates. Jewish Home Lifecare, Home Assistance Personnel Inc. (HAPI) is a home care aide agency that has developed a Peer Mentor HHA program. Peer Mentor HHAs mentor newly hired/trained HHAs within our agency. This career path leads to higher paying work that allows for growth of our workforce for the identified growing care need and positively impacts HHA retention.

Commissioning abortion and sexual health services.

This guidance offers best practice advice for commissioning termination of pregnancy services. It presents relevant publications including Department of Health guidance in connection with the key requirements for service provision. Commissioners are encouraged to examine their existing care pathways and contracted services to ensure that women are offered an equitable, appropriate and holistic service, which can be accessed as quickly as possible. The importance of associated services such as contraception...

On Beauty.

Beauty, we may assume, has fascinated mankind from its earliest beginnings. As the Oxford Dictionary tells us, beauty is "a combination of qualities […] that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight" (Oxford Dictionary, 2013). The Italian novelist-philosopher Umberto Eco explained the "History of Beauty" (Eco 2004) throughout the ages to a wider audience. Although highly debated in professional circles, he did bring the concept from art history to the lay public. Not only does Eco follow descrip...

A Declaration of Healthy Dependence: The Case of Home Care.

Aging populations have become a major concern in the developed world and are expected to require novel care strategies. Public policies, health-care regimes and technology developers alike stress the need for a more individualized care to meet the increased demand for care services in response to demographic change. Increasingly, care services are offered to individuals with diseases and or disabilities in their homes by means of Personalized Health-Monitoring (PHM) technologies. PHM-based home care is typi...

Complementary therapy and support services for formal and informal caregivers in Italian palliative care hospices: an exploratory and descriptive study.

PURPOSE: The present study is aimed to assess the availability and use of complementary medicine (CM) therapies in Italian palliative care hospices, and the support services available to caregivers and hospice staff. METHODS: A national sample of 30 hospices meeting study criteria provided data by means of telephone interviews. RESULTS: All hospices offered spiritual assistance and at least one other form of CM, with the most common being massage therapy (n = 24) and relaxation therapy (n = 10). Whe...

Short-term mortality associated with failure to receive home care after hemiarthroplasty.

BACKGROUND: Hemiarthroplasty is often the treatment of choice after hip fracture, particularly in frail elderly patients. Such patients may benefit from home care after discharge. We assessed factors associated with the receipt of home care and evaluated the risk of death within three months after discharge. METHODS: We obtained administrative data for patients 65 years or older in the province of Quebec who were discharged alive from hospital after hemiarthroplasty during the period 1997-2004. We evaluated...

Health information technology and physician career satisfaction.

PURPOSE: Health information technology (HIT) and physician career satisfaction are associated with higher-quality medical care. However, the link between HIT and physician career satisfaction, which could potentially reduce provider burnout and attrition, has not been fully examined. This study uses a nationally representative survey to assess the association between key forms of HIT and career satisfaction among primary care physicians (PCPs) and specialty physicians. METHODS: We performed a retrospective,...

Characteristics of home care supporting clinics providing home care for frail elderly persons living alone in Japan.

To explore the characteristics of home care supporting clinics providing home care for frail elderly persons living alone (EPLA), a self-administered questionnaire was mailed to 998 home care supporting clinics in the 23 wards of Tokyo, Japan between July and August 2009. Clinics providing home care for the frail EPLA significantly collaborated with 4 or more home visit nursing stations (42.5%) and 4 or more care managers (58.7%) and had sufficient medical care equipment, such as an oxygen inhaler, ventilat...

Home care-a safe and attractive alternative to inpatient administration of intensive chemotherapies.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate feasibility, safety, perception, and costs of home care for the administration of intensive chemotherapies. METHODS: Patients receiving sequential chemotherapy in an inpatient setting, living within 30 km of the hospital, and having a relative to care for them were offered home care treatment. Chemotherapy was administered by a portable, programmable pump via an implantable catheter. The main endpoints were safety, patient's quality of life [Functional...

A Roadmap for CAHPS: What Home Health Organizations Need to Know.

Patient safety and falls: A qualitative study of home care nurses in Norway.

This study explored patient safety and falls, based on the experiences of home care nurses. Four focus group interviews were conducted with 20 home care nurses. The data were analyzed by content analysis. This study identified the following four themes: (i) patient safety was not viewed as primary prevention; (ii) the lack of investigation into causes of falls; (iii) the frailty of older people who can no longer live at home independently and safely; and (iv) patient autonomy versus patient safety. In this...

Home Care Nurses' Provision of Support to Families of the Elderly at the End of Life.

In this article we describe our study of assistance for family decisions and caregiving by Japanese home care nurses to families of elderly relatives at the end of life. The participants were 31 nurses who had been evaluated as providing good end-of-life care. We carried out semistructured interviews concerning the practice of family support in two cases (cancer and noncancer). We conducted a qualitative analysis using the constant comparative approach and derived several categories inductively. Home care n...

Depression Care for Patients at Home (Depression CAREPATH): Home Care Depression Care Management Protocol, Part 2.

Early Uptake of HIV Clinical Care After Testing HIV-Positive During Home-Based Testing and Counseling in Western Kenya.

Home-based HIV testing and counseling (HBTC) has the potential to increase access to HIV testing. However, the extent to which HBTC programs successfully link HIV-positive individuals into clinical care remains unclear. To determine factors associated with early enrollment in HIV clinical care, adult residents (aged ≥13 years) in the Health and Demographic Surveillance System in Kisumu, Kenya were offered HBTC. All HIV-positive residents were referred to nearby HIV clinical care centers. Two to four mont...

A separate structured conversation with relatives of patients enrolled for advanced palliative home care: A care development project.

Objective: One prerequisite for palliative home care is the relatives' participation in the care. The relatives' situation in palliative home care is unique, as they support the sick person and also have a great need for support themselves. The aim of this care development project was to develop and implement separate structured conversations (SSC) with relatives of patients of an advanced palliative home care team (APHCT). Method: During the project, 61 conversations were held and 55 relatives answered a q...

Using the Book Teaching IOM as a Structure for Improved Care and Practice in Home Healthcare.

Career Satisfaction in Primary Care: A Comparison of International and US Medical Graduates.

BACKGROUND: International medical graduates (IMGs) have substantial representation among primary care physicians in the USA and consistently report lower career satisfaction compared with US medical graduates (USMGs). Low career satisfaction has adverse consequences on physician recruitment and retention. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to identify factors that may account for or explain lower rates of career satisfaction in IMGs compared with USMGs. DESIGN: Using data from the 2008 Health Tracking Physician Sur...

Ethical openings in palliative home care practice.

Understanding how a nurse acts in a particular situation reveals how nurses enact their ethics in day-to-day nursing. Our ethical frameworks assist us when we experience serious ethical dilemmas. Yet how a nurse responds in situations of daily practice is contingent upon all the presenting cues that build the current moment. In this article, we look at how a home care nurse responds to the ethical opening that arises when the nurse enters a person's home. We discuss how the home presents the nurse with know...

Returning home: historical influences on home healthcare in Canada.

In this article, the historical context of home healthcare in early 20th century Canada is examined with an emphasis on key events and groups that shaped nursing in the home as the primary form of healthcare. Ways in which home healthcare evolved are also addressed, including the movement from an emphasis on the home as the point of care for both preventative and curative services, to the separation of healthcare functions into public health, treatment of illness and injury, and pregnancy care-each with its...

Understanding the essence of home: Older people's experience of home in Australia.

This qualitative inquiry explores the experiences of community-living older people in Australia living in their home environment. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 30 older people, aged 56-90, from three states in Australia. Purposive or maximum variation sampling was used to recruit people with diverse characteristics in terms of age, gender, living situation, dwelling type, tenure and location (urban/rural). Older people in this study stated that they were interested in the capacity of the h...

Availability and use of hip protectors in residents of nursing homes.

Potential predictors of availability and use of hip protectors were studied in residents of 48 nursing homes. The likelihood of being offered a hip protector was reduced in men, in residents with very low or very high care needs, in residents with migration background, and in recipients of welfare aid. INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study is to analyze potential predictors of availability and use of hip protectors in residents of nursing homes. METHODS: In 48 German nursing homes, individual information...

Dwelling, house and home: towards a home-led perspective on dementia care.

"Home" is well known from everyday experience, plays a crucial role in all kinds of narratives about human life, but is hardly ever systematically dealt with in the philosophy of medicine and health care. The notion of home is ambiguous, is often used in a metaphorical way, and is closely related to concepts such as house and dwelling. In this paper the phenomenon of home is explored by means of some phenomenological writings of Heidegger, Bollnow, Bachelard and Levinas. Common in their views is that being...

Say Goodbye to Wet-to-Dry Wound Care Dressings: Changing the Culture of Wound Care Management Within Your Agency.

Depression indicators in a national sample of older community and care home patients: applying the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

In a national primary care database sample of older people (≥65 years), 81% (83 588/103 821) of community and 58% (1702/2940) of care home residents with diabetes or heart disease had depression case finding recently recorded; 66% (1418/2145) of community and 22% (26/118) of care home residents with a new depression episode had a depression-severity assessment recorded. Age, sex, and higher care home dementia prevalence did not explain these differences. Case finding and assessment of depression need to b...

Creative forces for retention of home health aides in hospice and palliative care.

Qualities of character and physical capability are essential for the success of a home health aide. The aide needs to be prepared by the organization to provide expert care in various home settings, with patients and families whose personalities, lifestyles, ages, cultural background, and socioeconomic status may be vastly different from those the aide has experienced. This article explores the history of home health aide services as a backdrop to understanding the creative forces in recruitment and educati...