The professor explains – how stress affects home care

2023-06-05T03:38:55.593Z

Highlights: Stress over a long period of time can be harmful to health and make the staff's judgment worse. "Chasing the clock can be something positive in the short term. But in the longer term, I don't see any benefits in being stressed. It will only cause problems," says Göran Kecklund, professor at the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University. How do stressed home care staff affect the people they care for? "Probably negative. When the staff do not have time to engage and talk, it is perceived as if you do not get the treatment you want," he says.

The home care staff in Mora sound the alarm about a stressful working day where it is difficult to keep up with their work on time. "It will only cause problems," says Göran Kecklund, professor at the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University, about the long-term consequences of stress at work.