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Tidy hacks : handy hints to make life easier
Dont throw away those breakfast grapefruit halvesadd a little salt and use them to clean your oven. Is space tight in the bathroom? Use hanging tiered fruit and vegetable baskets from the shower rod to stow shower toys and shampoo. Are your shoes looking a little dull and scuffed? Rub the pithy side of a banana skin over the scuffed leather. Instead of tossing that elastic band into a drawer, wrap it from shoulder to shoulder around a hanger to keep your clothes from slipping to the closet floor. Written with a special focus on simplifying, organizing and storing, Tidy Hacks includes dozens and dozens of inspired ideas for every area of your home (and more).
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The Caring Self
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were approximately 1.7 million home health aides and personal and home care aides in the United States as of 2008. These home care aides are rapidly becoming the backbone of America's system of long-term care, and their numbers continue to grow. Often referred to as frontline care providers or direct care workers, home care aides-disproportionately women of color-bathe, feed, and offer companionship to the elderly and disabled in the context of the home. InThe Caring Self, Clare L. Stacey draws on observations of and interviews with aides working in Ohio and California to explore the physical and emotional labor associated with the care of others.
Aides experience material hardships-most work for minimum wage, and the services they provide are denigrated as unskilled labor-and find themselves negotiating social norms and affective rules associated with both family and work. This has negative implications for workers who struggle to establish clear limits on their emotional labor in the intimate space of the home. Aides often find themselves giving more, staying longer, even paying out of pocket for patient medications or incidentals; in other words, they feel emotional obligations expected more often of family members than of employees. However, there are also positive outcomes: some aides form meaningful ties to elderly and disabled patients. This sense of connection allows them to establish a sense of dignity and social worth in a socially devalued job. The case of home care allows us to see the ways in which emotional labor can simultaneously have deleterious and empowering consequences for workers.
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Organization hacks : over 350 simple solutions to organize your home in no time!
\"Solve cluttered cabinets and overflowing drawers with the tips, tricks, and projects collected in Organization Hacks by organization expert Carrie Higgins of MakingLemonadeBlog.com. From quick fixes to DIY solutions, this book has the fix for your organization dysfunction\"-- Provided by publisher.
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No place like home? : feminist ethics and home health care
No Place Like Home? combines the rigorous scholarship of an
academic feminist philosopher with the 'close to the ground' insights that come from
bathing, feeding, and caring for older people as a home care aide. This book
develops recent work in feminist philosophy that attends to both care and justice to
propose a way to reform home care to reduce its exploitative qualities while
assuring that it is more than 'bed and body' work. -- Martha B. Holstein,
Visiting Scholar, Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of
Illinois, Chicago and co-editor, Ethics and Community Based Elder Care
For a scathing critique of how American society abuses both
those who receive home-based care as well as those who provide it, and a
sophisticated vision of how we might move toward a more just future, there's no book
like No Place Like Home?. -- James Lindemann Nelson, co-author of Alzheimer's:
Answers to Hard Questions for Families [Jennifer Parks's]
critique of current practices and institutions is thorough and accurate, benefiting
both from her own experience as a homecare worker and the philosophically
sophisticated tools she brings to bear on it. -- Laura Purdy, Professor of
Philosophy, Wells College In this provocative new book,
Jennifer A. Parks analyzes practices in the home health care industry and concludes
that they are highly exploitative of both workers and patients. Under the existing
system, underpaid workers are expected to perform tasks for which they are
inadequately trained, in unreasonably short periods of time. This situation, Parks
argues, harms workers and puts home health care patients at risk. To the extent that
the majority of patients and workers in home health care are women, she turns to
feminist ethics for an alternative approach. Through an understanding of individuals
as social beings with obligations to others, and of home health care as a public
good, Parks explains how to develop the social benefits of good home health care and
increase the role of government in providing financial support and regulatory
oversight.
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The home edit : a guide to organizing and realizing your house goals
A masterclass and look book in one, The Home Edit is filled with bright photographs and detailed tips, from placing plastic dishware in a drawer where little hands can reach to categorizing pantry items by color (there's nothing like a little ROYGBIV to soothe the soul). Above all, it's like having your best friends at your side to help you turn the chaos into calm.
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Bachelors of a different sort
The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.
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Effectiveness of the Labour Inspection Authority’s regulatory tools for work environment and employee health: study protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial among Norwegian home-care workers
IntroductionThere is a need to evaluate whether, and to what degree, labour inspections or other regulatory tools have the desired effects on psychosocial, organisational and mechanical work environment, and employee health. The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority (NLIA) uses different tools and strategies to enforce compliance with occupational safety and health (OSH) legislation. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effects of labour inspections and other regulatory tools employed by the NLIA. The home-care service is one of the fastest growing occupations and a prioritised area for the NLIA, hence the present study will investigate regulatory tools in this sector.Methods and analysisThe research project has been designed as a longitudinal, cluster-randomised, controlled trial and will be conducted among Norwegian home-care workers. The objective of the research project is to evaluate the effects of the NLIA’s regulatory tools (inspection and guidance) on: (1) compliance with OSH legislation and regulation; (2) psychosocial, organisational and mechanical work environment; (3) employee health in terms of musculoskeletal and mental health complaints; and (4) sickness absence. Public home-care services have been randomised to three intervention groups and one control group. Home-care services in the intervention groups will receive one of three intervention activities from the NLIA: (1) inspection from the Labour Inspection Authority; (2) guidance through an online interactive risk-assessment tool; and (3) guidance on psychosocial, organisational and mechanical work environment through workshops. The interventions will be performed at the organisational level (home-care service), and the effects of the interventions on the working environment and health complaints will be measured at the individual level (home-care employees).Ethics and disseminationThis project has been approved by the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REC) in Norway (REC South East) (2018/2003/REK sør-øst C), the Norwegian Center for Research Data (566128), and will be conducted in accordance with the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki. The results will be reported in international peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration numberNCT03855163.
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Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment in Mental Health
Crisis resolution and home treatment teams respond rapidly to people experiencing mental health crises and offer an alternative to hospital admission. They are an increasingly important component of mental health care and are adopted by many health care systems around the world. This practical and pioneering book describes the evidence for the effectiveness of such teams, the principles underpinning them, how to set up and organise them, how patients should be assessed and what types of care the teams should offer. Other topics covered include integration of crisis teams with in-patient, community residential and day care services, the service users' experiences of crisis teams, and responding to diversity in home treatment. This book is essential reading for all policy makers, service managers and mental health workers interested in establishing or operating crisis resolution and home treatment services, as well as for researchers and students seeking to understand this model.
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