Constructing Discrimination Rights: Comparisons among Staff in Long-Term Care Health Facilities.
Angela K PeronePublished in: The Gerontologist (2022)
By avoiding naming experiences as discrimination and blaming residents, most floor staff never reached the claiming process that would result in a report or complaint of discrimination. Managers' framings also shaped how front-line staff and managers named, blamed, and claimed experiences of discrimination and help explain why staff may be hesitant to report discrimination by residents. These findings suggest the need for new and targeted policy and practice approaches that address the nuances accompanying how staff understand workplace experiences as discrimination.