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Becoming an age-friendly employer: evidence report
- Authors:
- SMEATON Deborah, PARRY Jane
- Publisher:
- Centre for Ageing Better
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 123
- Place of publication:
- London
Focusing on the theme of age-friendly workplaces, this report focuses on three areas: Reducing age bias in recruitment; Promoting good quality flexible work; and Maximising the benefits of age diversity at work. The aim is to clarify why these three topics are important for employers and the extent to which they affect older workers. This report outlines, where relevant, evidence on promising approaches, setting out a range of practices that promote age-friendly workplaces. The study used a multi-methods approach including: a rapid evidence review; primary research with employers, intermediaries, and experts; secondary analysis of quantitative data; and an omnibus survey. It was also supported by processes designed to test interim findings and engage with employers’ ongoing concerns including an employer summit and two policy roundtables. (Edited publisher abstract)
Becoming an age-friendly employer
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR AGEING BETTER
- Publisher:
- Centre for Ageing Better
- Publication year:
- 2018
- Pagination:
- 46
- Place of publication:
- London
A practical summary of what employers can do to become more age-friendly. It covers everything from recruitment to supporting health at work and how to help staff in mid-life to plan for their future. It is based on insights from both employers and employees and includes examples and ideas from businesses. The guide is comprised of five sections, which reflect recommended actions for employers to improve the way they recruit, support and retain older workers: 1) offer flexible working; 2) ensure recruitment targets all age groups; 3) ensure people have support for health conditions; 4) create career development for all ages and 5) create an age positive culture. (Edited publisher abstract)
Recipe for retention
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.6.04, 2004, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A home care manager tells how she tackled recruitment and retention problems.
Checks and balances
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 17, July 2002, pp.12-13.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the the delays in getting police checks processed by the new Criminal Records Bureau and the impact it is having on the ability of care homes to hire new staff.
Reducing turnover and improving health care in nursing homes: the potential effects of self-managed work teams
- Author:
- McCONNELL Eleanor S.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(3), June 2000, pp.358-363.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article describes the use of self-managed work teams (SMWTs) in a nursing home in the U.S.A., their potential impacts on the provision of health care and employee satisfaction and turnover, and the factors reported to be important to SMWT effectiveness. Three SMWTs in a midsized nursing home in Wisconsin provide examples. Steps for implementing SMWTs are described.
Predicting turnover and retention in nursing home administrators: management and policy implications
- Authors:
- SINGH Douglas A., SCHWAB Robert C.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(3), June 2000, pp.310-319.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Administrator turnover and its impact on the quality of patient care are important concerns in the nursing home industry. This American study evaluates a model to determine which factors, attitudes, and personal characteristics can predict tenure. The extracted model correlates tenure with the administrator's past patterns of stability, community attachment, organizational in flagging NHAs who are likely to depart within their first 3 years of employment. Implications of these findings for recruitment, retention, and licensure policy are discussed.
Bringing home care: a vision for reforming home care in Scotland
- Author:
- GATHERUM Becca
- Publisher:
- Scottish Care
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 40
- Place of publication:
- Ayr
This report looks at the care at home sector’s role in delivering preventative care, drawing on the results of a survey of organisations delivering home care and housing support services in Scotland. A total of 82 care home organisations responded to the survey, which explored workforce challenges, financial and operational sustainability and wider stakeholder relationships. The report looks at the changing role of the home care sector, with the move away from relationship-based care and the provision of publicly funded care narrowing to those with high level support needs. It then considers the impact of these change on the home care workforce and on the commissioning and sustainability of services. The report highlights the value of preventative home care and suggests key principles that should be at the heart of a new model of home care. The final section makes suggestions for the future development of home care services in Scotland in the areas of workforce, commissioning, and prevention. (Edited publisher abstract)
Age-friendly organisations: the role of organisational culture and the participation of older workers
- Authors:
- APPANNAH Arti, BIGGS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 29(1), 2015, pp.37-51.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Population ageing is a global phenomenon that has become prominent in international discourse over the past few decades. This discussion is often coupled with the economic implications of population ageing through reduced workforce participation of the older age group, increased government spending on health and pensions and reduced government income from taxes. A means of mitigating the economic costs of ageing is to lift the proportion of older individuals in the workforce and prolong working lives. This brings to the forefront an important point regarding the need for organisations to undertake changes so as to better enable the employment of older individuals and to cater for an ageing workforce. This article critically reflects on age-friendly organisational practices that can have an impact on the recruitment and retention of older individuals. It further contends that there is a need to develop a deeper understanding of factors that constitute an organisational culture geared towards the older demographic, in order for strategies and practices directed at older workers to be effective. Through this argument, the authors consolidate the literature on age-friendly organisational practices and propose a conceptual model of an age-friendly organisational culture, drawing from both functionalist and interpretivist paradigms. (Publisher abstract)
Commissioning social care for older people: influencing the quality of direct care
- Authors:
- CHESTER Helen, HUGHES Jane, CHALLIS David
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 34(6), 2014, pp.930-950.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The delivery of personalised support to vulnerable older people is largely contingent on those staff who provide direct care. These care workers play an invaluable role in supporting vulnerable older people that may have increasingly complex needs either at home or in care homes. Internationally, concern has been raised both about the recruitment and retention of care workers; and their skills and competencies because of their importance in the delivery of quality care services. Using both primary and secondary data, this paper explores commissioning and contracting arrangements for domiciliary care and care home provision in England and their influence on the recruitment and retention of staff in these services. The implications of the findings are discussed in the context of two factors which influence continuity of care, a proxy for quality services for older people: training opportunities for staff and factors affecting the supply of labour from which direct carers are traditionally recruited. It is suggested that some of the drivers of quality in the provision of care may not be susceptible to the influence of commissioners and providers. Nevertheless, training may aid the recruitment and retention of care workers and provide one way in which they can promote a higher standard of care for older people. (Publisher abstract)
A criminal loss of grip?
- Author:
- DOBSON Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 1.6.04, 2004, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at forthcoming regulatory changes by the Department of Health which, it is feared, could put older people at greater risk of abuse. The proposals could mean that new staff in care homes could start work before completing a Criminal Bureau Record check.