Donnellan, Warren James 
ORCID: 0000-0002-0224-9155, Hirons, Annalise, Clarke, Katie ORCID: 0000-0002-4162-6769, Muinos, Christian and McCabe, Laura
(2022)
Exploring Resilience in UK-Based Domiciliary Care Workers before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 19 (23).
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Abstract
Domiciliary carers (DCs) provide an invaluable service that enables people living with dementia (PLWD) to remain living in their own homes for as long as possible. We know a lot about the negative impacts of providing domiciliary care and recent evidence suggests that this was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, we know much less about how these DCs manage the stressors associated with their roles. The current study adopts a resilience perspective to identify the resources that DCs caring for PLWD draw on to manage the stress associated with their roles before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 19 DCs from across the UK. Data were analysed using a directed qualitative content analysis. Themes included: healthy boundaries; motivation to care; psychological attributes; managing work; and support. The findings have implications for employers and may go some way towards improving DC working conditions, retaining staff, and attracting new DCs in the future.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | resilience, domiciliary, carers, COVID-19, qualitative |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Population Health |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2023 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 16:00 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph192316128 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3167126 |
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