Introduction Healthcare workforces are currently facing multiple challenges, including aging
populations; increasing prevalence of long-term conditions; and shortfall of registered …

Aims and objectives To identify the most common serious adverse events that occurred in
nursing homes and their most frequent contributing factors to the improvement of safe …

Aim and Background Health care needs of individuals living in the community are
increasing. To meet the rising need, unregulated care providers are providing more complex …

Background The number of errors in medication management in nursing homes is
increasing, which may lead to potentially life-threatening harm. Few studies on this subject …

Aim The aim was to describe home care assistants'(HCA) experiences of providing social
care in older people's own homes. Background With the increase in average life expectancy …

Aims and objective The aim was to describe registered nurses' experience in the context of
delegating the administration of medication to unlicensed personnel in residential care …

Introduction An increasing number of older persons worldwide live at home with various
functional limitations such as dementia. So, home care staff meet older persons with …

Objectives Many persons with dementia live at home with support from home care services.
Despite this, research is scarce concerning how risks in daily life among persons with …

Abstract Background and Aims Complexity of community‐based homecare for older adults
has increased significantly in the past decade in Ontario, Canada. Personal support workers …

To meet increasing demand for home care, the role of personal support workers (PSW s) is
shifting from providing primarily personal and supportive care to include care activities …