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An exploratory qualitative study on relationships between older people and home care workers in South Korea: the view from family carers and service providers.
- Source :
- Ageing & Society; Mar2015, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p629-652, 24p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Although the proportion of older people using home care services has significantly increased in East Asian countries, the issue of the relationships between older people and home care workers in the East Asian context has received scant attention from scholars. This exploratory qualitative study aims to explore these relationships under the new Korean long-term care insurance system. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 family carers and private-sector home care service providers (home care workers and provider managers). The findings show that while the majority of family carers interviewed reported that their relationships were good, the majority of service providers' responses were more negative. Service providers stated that they experienced a number of difficulties that affected their relationships with older clients, including excessive demands or sexual harassment by the older people in their care, exposure to unsafe working environments, and poor treatment in terms of pay and conditions. The findings suggest that stable and good relationships between home care workers and their clients have not been secured in Korea's long-term care system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- ADULT children
MEDICAL care for older people
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
PSYCHOLOGY of caregivers
HOME care services
INSURANCE
INTERVIEWING
LONG-term health care
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL quality control
MEDICAL care research
MEDICAL personnel
PATIENT-professional relations
PROFESSIONAL ethics
RESEARCH
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
WORK environment
QUALITATIVE research
JUDGMENT sampling
CULTURAL values
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
DATA analysis software
OLD age
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0144686X
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ageing & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101359163
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X13000950