Immediate aftermath of a client’s death: the experience of home health aides

Barooah, Adrita; Boerner, Kathrin; Gleason, Hayley; Riesenbeck, Isabelle van

doi:10.1080/01621424.2018.1561586

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“…As a result, aides often speak of feeling ill-prepared to handle client death (Tsui et al, 2018). Aides and researchers have thus recommended several agency-level interventions, including additional training around end-of-life issues, enhanced emotional support, paid time off, and more responsive case reassignment practices (Barooah et al, 2019;Gleason et al, 2016;Tsui et al, 2018). These recommendations can directly affect both retention and aide well-being.…”

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Interventions to Reduce the Impact of Client Death on Home Care Aides: Employers’ Perspectives

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For home care agencies and aides, the death of clients has important, yet often unrecognized, workforce implications. While research demonstrates that client death can cause grief and job insecurity for aides, we currently lack home care agencies’ perspectives on this issue and approaches to addressing it. This study uses key informant interviews with leaders from a diverse sample of eight New York City home care agencies to explore facilitators and barriers to agency action. We found that agencies engaged primarily in a range of informal, reactive practices related to client death, and relatively few targeted and proactive efforts to support aides around client death. While leaders generally acknowledged a need for greater aide support, they pointed to a lack of sustainable home care financing and policy resources to fund this. We recommend increased funding to support wages, paid time off, and supportive services, and discuss implications for future research.

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“…As a result, home care aides often report feeling unprepared to manage client death (Tsui et al). Aides and researchers have recommended several interventions that agencies could implement to address these concerns, including additional training around end-of-life issues, enhanced emotional support, and paid time off (Barooah et al, 2019; Gleason et al; Tsui et al). These strategies hold great promise.…”

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