Navigating the field of temporally framed care in the Danish home care sector.

The organisational and temporal framing of elderly care in Europe has changed in the wake of new public management reforms and standardised care services, the strict measurement of time and work schedules have become central aspects of care work. The article investigates the crafting of care in this framing: how care workers approach the services specified in their rotas and navigate between needs, demands and opportunities in the daily performance of duties. Applying feminist theory on time and anthropological theory on social navigation, it examines the practice of home care work in two Danish municipalities.

Why are they leaving? Causes of actual turnover in the Danish eldercare services.

Aim: To investigate reasons for actual turnover among eldercare staff and to investigate changes in job design that could prevent turnover.

Background: Many Western countries have difficulties in recruiting healthcare staff to provide care for an ageing population. Knowledge on the causes of turnover among healthcare staff is therefore important.

Client-related work tasks and meaning of work: results from a longitudinal study among eldercare workers in Denmark.

Purpose: To investigate the association between the perception of client-related work tasks and the experience of meaning of work among eldercare workers in the Danish eldercare sector.

Methods: We used baseline and follow-up questionnaire data from 3,985 female eldercare workers. The eldercare workers' perception of the client-related work tasks was measured by six items.