Grant: Operating Grant
University of Toronto
$345,635.00
The Invisible Workforce: Exploring the Roles & Significance of Health Support Workers in Caring for Older Canadians
FY 2013-14
Summary
The overarching aim of our study is to improve our understanding of the role and significance of health support workers (health care aides, and personal support workers) in caring for older Canadians in both the home and community care, and long-term care, settings. Our study responds to calls for research that address the sustainability of health care and health human resources and is the first phase of a large pan-Canadian program of research that will seek to uncover critical factors about unregulated caregivers, including HSWs that comprise Canada's "invisible workforce", and the criticality of the role that they play in sustaining that part of the health care system that relates to caring for frail seniors.
Department
Program
Operating Grant
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
305164
Name
Berta Whitney B
Region
Ontario
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Instname2
Health Services and Policy Research
Theme2
Health systems / services
Prcname2
Health Policy & Systems Management Research
Projecttitle
The Invisible Workforce: Exploring the Roles & Significance of Health Support Workers in Caring for Older Canadians
Programtype2
Operating Grants
Orgnameinp2
University of Toronto
Cihramount2
$345,635
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Operating Grant
Keyworddelim
Aging; Forecasting; Health Support Workers; Home Care; Long Term Care; Mixed Methods; Production Estimates; Semi-Structured Interviews; Survey
Abstract
The overarching aim of our study is to improve our understanding of the role and significance of health support workers (health care aides, and personal support workers) in caring for older Canadians in both the home and community care, and long-term care, settings. Our study responds to calls for research that address the sustainability of health care and health human resources and is the first phase of a large pan-Canadian program of research that will seek to uncover critical factors about unregulated caregivers, including HSWs that comprise Canada's "invisible workforce", and the criticality of the role that they play in sustaining that part of the health care system that relates to caring for frail seniors.
Competitiondate
201403
Approvedterm2
3 yrs 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Berta, Whitney B; Laporte, Audrey
Approvedterm
3 ans 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
~ $345,635~ $0~
