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Ageing well at home: emergent models of home care provision and the professionalisation of the home care workforce
- Authors:
- ZIMPEL-LEAL Karla, GOODLAD Cate, BURNS Diane
- Publisher:
- University of Sheffield. CIRCLE
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This Policy Perspective provides insights from expert contributors attending a roundtable discussion to explore some of the problems experienced in home care and potential solutions. Key issues identified included the need to professionalise the care workforce; the implications of new models of home care delivery, and the opportunities and risks these present; and the importance of increasing take-up and use of technology in the home care sector. Recommendations for policy, employers and research are included. These include a need for Government to invest in the home care workforce to improve its status as a profession and help reverse recruitment and retention problems; and the need for the sector to develop new ways of working, including appropriate use of emerging technologies to improve wellbeing outcomes. It is one of seven 'policy perspectives' produced as part of the Sustainable Care programme, led by Sheffield University, to explore issues relating to the sustainability of care arrangements in the UK. (Edited publisher abstract)