TIME: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Peggy Chi, a landscape architect and postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto is leading a transdisciplinary knowledge mobilization initiative relating to influences of built, naturalized, and psychosocial environments on both worker and resident outcomes in long-term care. Members are invited to the 2023/2024 Health Services Systems and Policy Seminar Series, entitled "Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice." Architects can benefit from these seminars to update their knowledge in long-term care as they continue to plan for redevelopments and new constructions of long-term care homes.
These seminars will be held online via Zoom. Zoom links will be sent upon registration on EventBrite. This is an open seminar where everyone within the broad University of Toronto community, and within the networks of University of Toronto community members, are welcome to attend. Registration is required to receive zoom links.
2023-2024 Theme:
Advances in Aging Environments Research & Practice: What We Know & Don’t Know About the Influences of Psychosocial & Physical Work Environments on Workers and Their Work
Session Abstract:
According to the American Health Care Association (2023), approximately 77% of nursing homes are facing moderate to high levels of staffing shortages and 95% of nursing homes are experiencing difficulty hiring staff. Similar to the nursing workforce, more now than ever before, providing care for their patients is at the expense of healthcare workers’ wellbeing. In a recent systematic review and meta-analysis, Galanis, et al (2021) found that the overall prevalence of nurse’s emotional exhaustion was 34.1%, of depersonalization was 12.6% and of lack of personal accomplishment was 15.2%. Along with psychosocial issues, the main risk factors that increased healthcare worker’s burnout were longer working time in quarantine areas, working in a high-risk environment, working with inadequate and insufficient material resources, along with other work-related issues, such as staffing. Many of the factors discussed were environmental in nature as many staff are tackling a pandemic in decompensating aging healthcare facilities. No where is truer than in long-term care environments. The purpose of this presentation is to share the research available on aspects of the built environment that impact healthcare workers’ wellbeing that stress the return on investment for these features.
Speaker:
Terri Zborowsky, PhD | Evidence-based design researcher at HGA