title: Nursing home aides experience increase in serious injuries.
abstract: Physically impaired and socially isolated, many residents of nursing homes greatly depend on nursing aides and other employees; in providing care the workers themselves incur disabling injuries, often to the back.
authors.affiliation: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Personick
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019567:Back Injuries; D006801:Humans; D009728:Nursing Assistants; D009735:Nursing Homes; D012449:Safety; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D000078329:Workforce