Emergency Medical Service (EMS) responders deliver patient care in high-risk, high-stress,
and highly variable scenarios. This unpredictable work environment exposes EMS …

Canadian frontline careworkers are six times more likely to experience daily physical
violence than their Scandinavian counterparts. This paper draws on a comparative survey of …

Ambient assisted living aims to support the well-being of people with special needs by
offering assistive solutions. Systems focused on dementia increase the autonomy of people …

Aims and objectives. The aim was to describe expressions of emotions and resistiveness to
care among persons with dementia (PWD), during morning care situations without and with …

Despite the shift toward using person-centered approaches in dementia care, the relevance
and applicability of the concept “personhood” remains unclear in everyday practice and …

Drawing on feminist epistemologies, this paper attends to the way the reductionist
assumptions have shaped the organization of nursing home carework in manners that are …

Objectives: Although some individual and organizational contributors to person-centred care
or quality of care have been studied, they have rarely been examined together. Our goal …

Residential care is a highly regulated sector. Regulations are often a product of scandal,
and they reflect an understandable desire to safeguard nursing homes' vulnerable …

Background Mid‐to late‐stage dementia is often characterized by behavioural and
psychological symptoms, including, but not limited to physical and verbal aggression …

To date, most of the interdisciplinary scholarly literature pertaining to care work and labor
studies of marginalized groups, such as women, visible minorities, and immigrants, has …