Perceived Contributors to Job Quality and Retention at Home Care Cooperatives.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

To safely age at home, millions of older adults rely on the services of home care workers (HCWs), a workforce marked by poor working conditions, high turnover, and critical worker shortages. Home care cooperatives-businesses co-owned and controlled by HCWs-have demonstrated significantly lower turnover and higher job quality than traditional home care businesses, but the factors associated with these outcomes have not been investigated.

Objective

To identify potential factors associated with higher job quality and lower turnover at home care cooperatives.

Design, setting, and participants

In this qualitative study, semistructured interviews were conducted in English from November 2023 to June 2024. To be eligible for the study, participants had to be 18 yea

SUBMITTER: Gusoff GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11976488 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature