Objective: To evaluate effectiveness of a workplace educational intervention at improving health-related outcomes in carer-employees. Methods: A pre-post test design compared with health of a sample ( n = 21) of carer-employees before (T1) and after (T2) a workplace intervention, as well as a final timepoint (T3) 12 months after T1. An aggregate health score was used to measure health and consisted three scales; depression (CES-D), psychosocial (CRA), and self-reported health (SF-12), where higher scores indicated higher frequency of adverse health symptoms. Three random-slope models were created via the linear mixed modeling method (LMM) to illustrate changes in reported health. Results: All three LMM models reported a reduction in participants’ health score, particularly between T1 and T2, indicating a decrease in reported adverse health symptoms. Conclusion: The intervention was successful in improving the health of carer-employees.

The home during COVID-19 has become a blended place, occupied by activities of care provision, paid work, and personal life.• This integrated landscape presents benefits to working carers such as increased flexibility, alongside challenges such as a lack of external carer supports. • These landscapes may continue in a post-COVID world, as organizations contemplate continuation of digital/hybridized workplaces and long-term care homes fall out of favour.Eldercare and places of eldercare have been radicalized with the advent of COVID-19. Growing concerns about the safety of long-term care homes, coupled with the continuation of stay-at-home orders, mean that carers are reconstructing new meanings and places of care provision. Increasingly for many Canadians, the home is rapidly becoming the nexus of one's domestic, work, and caregiving world. By interviewing working carers (n = 5) living throughout Canada, this study investigates the changing meanings of home as a place for care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon lived experiences of informal carers engaged in the workforce, we observe a blurring of spatial and temporal boundaries between places of work and places of care. Specifically, we note that the integration of carescapes and workscapes into a single domain presents both benefits and tensions to carers, such as increased schedule flexibility and disruptions at work, respectively. Parallel to this, we also explore how previous places of safety and respite, such as independent senior residences and long-term care homes, are perceived as sites of danger and anxiety due to the vulnerability of seniors to COVID-19. This dynamic is likely to continue well into the future, as long-term care homes fall out of favour and carers adopt a more integrated approach to caregiving within their daily lives.