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Home Economics in the 21st Century : A Cross Cultural Comparative Study
No full textThis article is reprinted with permission from the International Federation for Home Economics, August 2010Peer reviewe
Where Have All The Home Care Workers Gone?
No full textBecause of the on-going need to co-ordinate care and ensure its continuity, issues of retention and recruitment are of major concern to home care agencies. The purpose of this study was to examine the factors affecting turnover decisions among visiting home care workers. In 1996, 620 visiting nurses and personal support workers from three non-profit agencies in a mid-sized Ontario city participated in a survey on their work and health. By the fall of 2001, 320 of these respondents had left the agencies. Analysis of the turnover data showed a temporal association between the implementation of managed competition and turnover. We mailed a self-completion questionnaire asking about their reasons for leaving the agency and about their subsequent work experience. One hundred and sixty nine (53%) responded to this survey. Respondents indicated dissatisfaction with the implementation of managed competition, with pay, hours of work, lack of organizational support and work load as well as health reasons, including work-related stress, as reasons for leaving. Less than one-third remained employed in the home care field, one-third worked in other health care workplaces and one-third were no longer working in health care. Their responses to our 1996 survey were used to predict turnover. Results show that nurses were more likely to leave if they had unpredictable hours of work, if they worked shifts or weekends and had higher levels of education. They were more likely to stay with the agency if they reported working with difficult clients, had predictable hours, good benefits, had children under 12 years of age in the home, and were younger. Personal support workers were more likely to leave if they reported higher symptoms of stress, and had difficult clients. They were more likely to stay if they worked weekends and perceived their benefits to be good.turnover, home care workers, nurses, personal support workers, managed competition, home care sector, policy, for-profit agency, non-profit agency
Calling Home – Performative Portraiture Exhibition
No full textResearch Background
This research explores claims that photography's agency has increased exponentially by the associated feedback cycles of networked (online) audiences. It sits within the discourse of hyperimaging, understood as a form of expanded photography; it is an interactive visual link that goes beyond the still and moving image format. Hyperimaging is more about enabling a certain mutuality, less about the work and more about the act of making the work. Furthermore, the outcomes of hyperimaging may not ultimately be photographic at all but rather implicitly photographic (Cramerotti, 2015).
Research Contribution
The Calling Home Portrait Exhibition manifests as both a live 4-minute multi-screen LED image installation and social media insertions. These artefacts evolved through a unique collaboration with performing artists, directors, producers, theatrical technicians and 64 participating members of an audience of 2000 – before, during and after a live performance – and they continue to evolve online. The work expands upon the temporal and spatial relationships that exist between the interactive act of making photographic portraiture and the digital technologies and processes that are usually associated with hyperimaging.
Research Significance
The work was commissioned by Natalie Lidgerwood - Senior Programmer at HOTA (Home of the Arts). It was screened on HOTA’s Outdoor Stage during the finale of Calling Home on Sunday the 15th of December 2019. The imagery accompanied Spirit of Place performed by Yirmal, a Yolngu man from the community of Yirrkala in North-East Arnhem Land. The show was directed by Benjamin Knapton, with the musical direction by Gordon Hamilton, and backed by musical arrangements from William Barton, Camerata – Queensland's Chamber Orchestra and The Australian Voices. The live audience comprised of 2000 people of all ages, faiths and traditions, and the exhibition continues online through HOTA's social media channels.No Full Tex
'What she told us made the world of difference': Carers perspectives of a hospice at home service
No full textCopyright @ 2013 Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal. Posted with publisher's permission.This paper explores the expectations and needs of current and bereaved carers whose relatives
received care at home from a palliative care team. Aim: A hospice at home service was established in
2006 to provide patients with care in their own homes. We examined whether this model of care was helpful in
mitigating carers’ burden and in enabling terminally ill patients to be cared for and die at home. Methods: This
study utilized a survey and interviews. Participants were carers in the midwest of Ireland. Survey responses from 122 carers were analyzed using SPSS 18.0 (SPSS Inc., 2009); interviews with 15 carers were also conducted. Results: Carers’ expectations of the service were often exceeded, and quality of care dimensions were rated highly. Future improvements could include facilitating discussions on place of death and offering bereavement support. Conclusion: The service is supporting carers in facilitating their relatives’ choice to die at home.Atlantic Philanthropies and the Health Service Executiv
Home and Mortgage Ownership of the Dutch Elderly: Explaining Cohort, Time and Age Effects
No full textThe relationship between home ownership of Dutch elderly households and age is strongly negative. Other studies suggest that this age gradient should be attributed to a cohort effect. In this paper we investigate where those cohort effects come from. We also observe that mortgage ownership among elderly home-owners increased considerably during the nineties. Using panel data we estimate models explaining home and mortgage ownership by age, cohort, and time effects, as well as other factors. Cohort and time effects are modelled explicitly using macro economic and housing market related variables. We find that the level of GDP per capita when the household head was young is the main factor explaining generation effects in home ownership among the elderly. After accounting for cohort effects it also appears that home ownership decreases slightly with age. Mortgage ownership among elderly home owners rose considerably during the nineties due to house price increases and due to financial innovation in the mortgage market. Cohort effects are also important. A supplementary analysis suggests that those cohort effects are due to the fact that the accidental bequest motive is becoming less important.home ownership, mortgages, cohort effects
Teaching out-of-field in Home Economics: A Systematic Quantitative Literature Review
No full textOut-of-field teaching (OOFT) is a global phenomenon impacting student learning outcomes and teacher attrition. Anecdotal evidence suggests that home economics teacher shortages drive OOFT, yet there is an absence of research regarding its impacts. A systematic quantitative literature review (SQLR) was conducted to address this research gap and establish a baseline. The inclusion criteria were secondary school home economics education and OOFT, peer reviewed, full-text, and published in English. The date of publication was not a limiting factor. Nine databases were searched in March 2022 and, following exclusion protocols, 25 papers were retained. The qualifying papers were published between 1979 and 2021 with authors from 13 countries. Five papers focussed exclusively on OOFT and home economics. The most used terminology to describe OOFT was 'qualified/unqualified' (n=19; 76%). A global shortage of in-field home economics teachers was the most reported cause for OOFT (n=17; 68%). Impacts on students included lower-quality teaching experiences. OOF teacher self-efficacy was negatively impacted. The impacts on students, teachers, and schools were found to be interlinked. This study provides a baseline to understand the causes and impacts of OOFT in home economics classrooms. Overall, t here was a p aucity o f data available regarding this t opic, e specially concerning i ts p revalence and reported experiences. This gap indicates the need for further research regarding OOFT in home economics, especially as OOFT is increasingly under scrutiny in all fields of education due to the negative effects on teachers, student learning outcomes, and school operations. The study also affirmed the need for advocacy to ensure policymakers are aware of the negative impacts of OOFT in home economics and act to seek remedies.No Full Tex
The National Home and Hospice Care Survey : 1994 summary
No full textThe 1994 National Home and Hospice Care Survey was a nationwide sample survey of agencies providing home health and hospice care, their current patients, and their discharges. Basic demographic information about the patients was collected. It included information about living arrangements, functional statuses, caregiver and referral sources, primary source of payment, services received, and service providers used. Current and admission diagnoses for each patient were collected according to the International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification, 9th Revision. The data were collected by personal interview using three questionnaires and two sampling lists. Data are presented in 61 tables according to standard sets of descriptive variables. The tables on patients are grouped into four categories: home health care current patients, home health care discharges, current hospice care patients, and hospice care discharges. Data are presented on agency charac- teristics, demographic characteristics, utilization measures, and health and functional status of current patients and discharges.Authors: Adrienne Jones and Genevieve Strahan.Includes bibliographical references (p. 4).199791238941105
Consumer Factsheet: Arranging Home Modifications
No full textThis factsheet assists consumers navigate their way to arranging home modifications in Australia
Home Education: Globalization Otherwise?
No full textHome Education seems to be a successful way to educate. Academic results and socialization processes in home education are promising. Already home education is global, home educators everywhere educate their children themselves without schools. They develop new forms of local and international co-operation. Is home education an impulse to a renewing of modern education? Is home education globalization otherwise?home education, globalization, educational politics, pedagogy
Assessing home economists’ spiritual health and wellbeing: A case for further study
No full textDeagon, JR ORCiD: 0000-0003-2877-1125The spiritual health dimension is a generally accepted feature of holistic or whole person health and wellbeing in Home Economics arenas. An unexamined area is the spiritual health and wellbeing of Home Economics professionals themselves. This small-scale pilot study assessed the four domains of spiritual health and wellbeing (personal, communal, environmental, transcendental) of sixty-six Home Economists from cross-cultural backgrounds via an anonymous online survey. Analysis revealed that Home Economists identified most with communal aspects of spiritual health and wellbeing including a love of other people, service to others, the importance of family and friendships, and respect for others. As an aspect of Home Economics, spiritual health and wellbeing was acknowledged as important to these Home Economists. There is potential for rich applications in Home Economics; however, very little professional development is focused on this area. This paper argues the case for deeper investigations of spiritual health and wellbeing and the creation of professional development materials
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