SOCIAL WORK AND MANAGEMENT ›› 2023, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (3): 39-49.

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Strategies to Empower Caregivers in Care Process: A Case Study of a Private Nursing Home in J County

ZHANG Yi1, CHEN Anna2   

  1. 1. School of Sociology & Population Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China;
    2. School of Sociology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430079, China
  • Received:2022-06-08 Online:2023-05-15 Published:2023-05-30

Abstract: For a long time, the importance of care work has been neglected, and the “disempowerment” of care work for care workers mainly comes from two aspects: physical labor and emotional labor, which hinders the improvement of the professional situation of the care workers. For physical labor, the caregiver community affirms the specialization of nursing work by emphasizing professionalism and ethics; For emotional labor, caregivers carry out subjective empowerment from the two dimensions of superficial economic returns and deep emotional relationships, and show obvious pragmatic characteristics. The “disempowerment” of care work and the subjective empowerment strategy of caregiver groups affect the quality of caregiving practice, and a professional and humanized nursing system should be built from the professional treatment, training and industry management system of caregivers, and the role of professional social work in the empowerment of caregivers should be brought into play.

Key words: elderly care, physical labor, emotional labor, subjective empowerment

CLC Number: 

  • C916
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