As digital technology became integral to the capitalist market dystopia of the first decades of the 21st century, it not only refashioned our ways of communicating but of working and consuming, indeed ways of living. The Covid-19 pandemic revealed not only the lack of investment, planning and preparation that underlay the scandalous slowness of the […]
Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising […]
Addresses the dearth of discussion about the growth of private healthcare Drawing upon experts from several countries, this collection offers a unique perspective on healthcare systems: a view from those trying to access healthcare services, working inside systems, or responsible for managing and organising services Provides an international perspective on the navigation of healthcare systems, […]
The 2016 US presidential election exposed rising xenophobic and nationalist sentiment within the United States and other democratic countries. As populist movements grow, democratic freedoms erode. We Resist demonstrates that the things we often take for granted - safety, family, employment, health, a promising future - are under attack, and we must fight to preserve […]
Taking a unique look at health promotion and aging in Canada, this edited collection uses the action framework in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to explore the factors and issues related to the health of older adults. The book is organized around the five action areas for health promotion: building healthy public policy, creating […]
Changing resident and staff populations, along with political economic reforms, call for new insights into the kinds of skills needed to work in long-term residential care (LTRC). This paper explores the skills of three occupational groups in LTRC: direct care workers, nurses, and doctors. We highlight complexities and ambiguities that exist regarding the training, roles […]
Rather than expose and indict shortcomings of the existing system, the author was recently involved in a study that sought to build a vision of what high quality residential care for the elderly could look like. Preliminary findings suggest that care is best fostered in contexts where care is understood as a relationship and where […]
Although high income countries increasingly emphasize care at home, long-term residential care is and will remain the place where some of our most vulnerable live and work. Based on over 500 interviews with the entire range of actors in long-term residential care, intensive observations by interdisciplinary teams of at least 12 in 27 different sites […]
Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, “work” is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the “return to work” discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. […]
This article explores the operation of gender and industrial relations in long-term care work or nursing home work, ‘from within’ the experience of the predominantly female workforce in seven unionized facilities in Canada. Drawing on qualitative case study data in non-profit facilities, the article argues that the main industrial relations challenges facing long-term care workers […]