The Home Health Aide Experience: A Qualitative Analysis of the Value of Labor of Homecare Workers in the United States in Relation to Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status
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Authors
Massari, Gina Elizabeth
Issue Date
2013
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Thesis
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en_US
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Home health care is a rapidly growing field and home health aides are at the heart
of it. Their jobs put them in direct contact with patients, which is both difficult and
demanding. For all their hard work they receive low pay, few benefits and little respect in
society. The purpose of the study is to gain insight into how the labor of home health
aides is valued in the United States and how it relates to gender, race, ethnicity, and
socioeconomic status. There has been little data collected directly from home health aides
to provide their perspectives on their work. This qualitative analysis involved nine
interviews with home health aides in Connecticut, which provide their personal
perspectives on their jobs in the hopes to help to improve their experiences. In speaking
with these nine aides it was revealed from their personal experiences that the vast
majority of home health aides are minority women, a large amount of who are
immigrants to the United States. These home health aides felt they should receive higher
wages, ought to merit benefits from their employers and deserve more respect for their
hard work.
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