TY - JOUR
T1 - Domestic helpers as frontline workers in China’s home-based elder care
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Wang, Jing
AU - Wu, Bei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/7/4
Y1 - 2017/7/4
N2 - We conducted a systematic review of the existing empirical studies focusing on Chinese domestic helpers in mainland China and foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong who provide care for community-dwelling older adults. There are very limited studies specifically focusing on this population. The findings synthesized domestic helpers’ characteristics, acknowledged their contributions to elder care in China, and showed multiple challenges facing them, such as issues related to their physical health and emotional well-being, lack of legal rights protection, difficulties of adapting life in the host city, lack of training, and risk of abuse and sexual harassment. Our findings support the need for developing training and educational programs about legal rights protection and cultural competency for domestic helpers and the need to promote domestic helpers’ access to health care and social welfare and opportunities for career advancement, and provide respectful working conditions.
AB - We conducted a systematic review of the existing empirical studies focusing on Chinese domestic helpers in mainland China and foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong who provide care for community-dwelling older adults. There are very limited studies specifically focusing on this population. The findings synthesized domestic helpers’ characteristics, acknowledged their contributions to elder care in China, and showed multiple challenges facing them, such as issues related to their physical health and emotional well-being, lack of legal rights protection, difficulties of adapting life in the host city, lack of training, and risk of abuse and sexual harassment. Our findings support the need for developing training and educational programs about legal rights protection and cultural competency for domestic helpers and the need to promote domestic helpers’ access to health care and social welfare and opportunities for career advancement, and provide respectful working conditions.
KW - China
KW - domestic helpers
KW - long-term care
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U2 - 10.1080/08952841.2016.1187536
DO - 10.1080/08952841.2016.1187536
M3 - Article
C2 - 27552244
AN - SCOPUS:84983340412
SN - 0895-2841
VL - 29
SP - 294
EP - 305
JO - Journal of Women and Aging
JF - Journal of Women and Aging
IS - 4
ER -