Adjunct Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
Clinician Scientist, Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, ON.
Healthc Policy. 2020 Nov;16(2):25-40. doi: 10.12927/hcpol.2020.26355.
Home-based palliative programs rely on family caregivers, who often miss time from employment. This article identified changes in caregivers' labour force participation over the palliative trajectory.
Family caregivers (n = 262) were interviewed biweekly to measure transitions across four employment categories.
More than half of the caregivers had one employment transition and 29% had three or more. The highest proportion of transitions occurred for caregivers who were employed part-time.
Understanding these transitions is critical to the development of strategies tailored to caregivers to contain labour force losses and to support caregivers during a time of high caregiving demands.
家庭姑息治疗项目依赖于家庭护理人员，他们往往会因工作而请假。本文旨在确定姑息治疗过程中护理人员劳动力参与的变化情况。
对 262 名家庭护理人员进行了每两周一次的访谈，以衡量他们在四个就业类别中的变化情况。
超过一半的护理人员有一次就业转变，29%的护理人员有三次或更多次转变。转变比例最高的是兼职就业的护理人员。
了解这些转变对制定针对护理人员的策略至关重要，这些策略旨在减少劳动力流失，并在高护理需求期间为护理人员提供支持。
