From Compliance to Care: Qualitative Findings from a Survey of Essential Caregivers in Ontario Long-Term Care Homes

DISCUSSION: Our findings indicate that essential caregivers find it necessary to take on vital roles in order to shore up two significant gaps in the current system: they provide psychosocial and emotional (and sometimes even basic) care to residents, and they play a monitoring and advocacy role to compensate for the failings of the current regulatory compliance regime.PMID:38561989 | DOI:10.1017/S071498082400014X

Source: Canadian Journal on Aging - April 2, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Authors: James Conklin Maryam Mohammadi Dehcheshmeh Douglas Archibald Jacobi Elliott Amy Hsu Anita Kothari Paul Stolee Heidi Sveistrup Source Type: research