Who is Looking After Mom and Dad? Unregulated Workers in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes*

Older adults living in residential long-term care or nursing homes have increasingly complex needs, including more dementia than in the past, yet we know little about the unregulated workforce providing care. We surveyed 1,381 care aides in a representative sample of 30 urban nursing homes in the th...

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Main Authors: Estabrooks, Carole A., Squires, Janet E., Carleton, Heather L., Cummings, Greta G., Norton, Peter G.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4413363/