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What challenges and pressures do home care workers face and how could they be better supported?
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What challenges and pressures do home care workers face and how could they be better supported? In the ever changing world of today, home carers play a significant role in helping people with a variety of disabilities and needs to stay living in their homes for a longer period of time, as well as providing care services in care homes and hospitals where they also have to work alongside doctor's and nurses. Home carers (mostly women) have always been seen as low paid, inexperienced workers who do homemaker duties and are not recognised for the hard work that their job involves. It seems that they are looked upon this way because caring is seen as women's work, like in Reg's and Glenda's case, 'you didn't have to tell her at all... she just did it as she would in her own...home'. (Offprint 6, p25). He saw the work Glenda did...
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