Reports Summarize Geriatrics and Gerontology Study Results from City University of New York (Where Policy Meets Practice: Employer Perspectives on Scheduling and Hours for Home Care Aides)

2019 NOV 04 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Investigators discuss new findings in Aging Research - Geriatrics and Gerontology. According to news reporting originating in New York City, New York, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “In a context of growing demand for home-based direct care services, the need to retain direct care workers (DCWs) is clear. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act, and state-level changes in Medicaid support for home-based care together have affected agencies that hire DCWs, with implications for an issue that affects worker satisfaction: scheduling.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the City University of New York, “Many home-based aides employed by agencies cannot count on consistent or sufficient hours. Hours shortfall and instability have been recognized as important issues for retail and restaurant workers, but focused on less for care aides.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This study uses semistructured interviews with agency representatives to examine these issues from an employer perspective, with a focus on how the competing influences of health care, labor, and employment policy shape scheduling and a review of how recommendations for changes in policy and practice in other sectors might apply to home care.”

For more information on this research see: Where Policy Meets Practice: Employer Perspectives on Scheduling and Hours for Home Care Aides. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2019;38(11):1615-1634. Journal of Applied Gerontology can be contacted at: Sage Publications Inc, 2455 Teller Rd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Journal of Applied Gerontology - jag.sagepub.com)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting E. Nisbet, City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/0733464817739153. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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