Nursing home aides experience increase in serious injuries.
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.
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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