Epidemiology
New epidemiology study findings have been reported from Northwestern University, Center on Aging
Published in MD Week, September 7th, 2007
Investigators publish new data in the report "The language of caring: nurse's aides' use of family metaphors conveys affective care. Using a conceptual framework from the field of care work and the theory of boundary work, we explore the use of family metaphors by nurse's aides to describe their affective care for nursing home residents. We focus on how nurse's aides can express affective care in spite of experiencing racial abuse," scientists writing in the journal The Gerontologist report.
"Using the technique of domain analysis, we present a secondary analysis of semistructured interviews with 30 African American and immigrant aides working in three nursing...
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