Abstract
Although home care is one of the fastest growing segments of the health care delivery system, there is little empirical data on the professional functions or ethical concerns of social workers employed in home care. To provide this information 118 social workers in proprietary and nonprofit agencies in one midwestern and one southern state were surveyed. The results indicated that social workers performed a wider array of professional functions with a more diverse population of patients than had been documented previously. Workers experienced ethical concerns related to self-determination, barriers to access of services, implementing advance directives, and assessment of mental competence most often. Workers in proprietary agencies rated the ethical concern of barriers to access of services as occurring significantly more often than workers in nonprofit agencies.
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