What is it about?
There's a growing number of over 65 year old people in the UK living in care homes. Careers for staff working within this sector have become more challenging. This exploratory study interviewed staff within care homes in one health board area in Scotland to understand their experiences in relation to their resilience.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that emotional factors enhance resilience within staff in care homes with laughter and happiness of both residents and staff being important factors. Resilience was seen not only at an individual level but also within effective team working.
Perspectives
Interviewing staff in care homes was humbling and pleasing to the authors. Working within care homes often makes poor publicity but hearing about experiences of staff who found great positivity in their careers made us proud of the professions we were part of. I hope this article leaves people with hope in how their families may be cared for in the future.
Sheelagh Martindale
Robert Gordon University
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This page is a summary of: Building resilience of staff in care homes: preliminary findings of an exploratory study, Nursing and Residential Care, January 2024, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/nrec.2023.0020.
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