Municipality | Home care organization | Intervention work group | |
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Case 1 | Small, rural town with approx. 15,000 inhabitants | The home care organization consists of six geographically distributed units | The intervention work group consisted of seven people in total, including their first-line manager. There was one person from each of the six home care units, two women and four men |
Case 2 | Small, rural town with approx. 15,000 inhabitants | The home care organization is organized in three geographically distributed day units plus one night unit serving the whole municipality | The intervention work group consisted of eight people including their first-line manager. There were four people from the day units, one person from the night unit and two care coordinators (coordinating the care for all units). One person was a man and the rest were women |
Case 3 | Small city with approx. 50,000 inhabitants | The home care organization consists of seven geographically distributed units. One specific unit, with 50 employees, participated in the study | The intervention work group consisted of eight people from the day and evening shifts of the unit and their first-line manager. All of them were women |
Case 4 | Large city with approx. 350,000 inhabitants | The home care organization in the entire city employs several thousands of people and is organized in geographically distributed units. The participating unit included about 35 employees, scheduled for daytime, evening and weekend shifts | The intervention work group consisted of seven people, including their first-line manager. All of them were women |