Lifting the 'violence veil': Examining working conditions in long-term care facilities using iterative mixed methods

Canadian Journal on Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 271-284

  Daly, Tamara ^a,b   Banerjee, Albert ^a   Armstrong, Pat ^a   Armstrong, Hugh ^b   Szebehely, Marta ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

care work; health policy; iterative mixed methods; long term care facilities; violence; working conditions

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MANPOWER; NURSING HOME; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

AGED; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; RESIDENTIAL FACILITIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

EID: 79960226677     PISSN: 07149808     EISSN: 17101107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S071498081100016X     Document Type: Article

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