https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0733464821989859

Research demonstrates that client death can cause grief and job insecurity for home care aides, according to a recent article in the Journal of Applied Gerontology. After conducting interviews with leaders of eight New York City home care agencies, the authors concluded that agencies engaged primarily in a range of informal, reactive practices, and relatively few targeted and proactive efforts, to support aides around client death.