Care Work, Practices, and Delivery

1. Butler, J.I. & Fox, M.T. (2024). ‘Our Voices Aren't Being Heard’: A qualitative descriptive study of nurses' perceptions of interprofessional collaboration in care supporting older people's functioning during a hospital stay, Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/scs.13243
2. Fox MT, Butler JI, Day AMB, Durocher E, Nowrouzi-Kia B, Sidani S, Maimets, I., Dahlke, S., & Yamada, S. (2024) Healthcare providers’ perceived acceptability of a warning signs intervention for rural hospital-to-home transitional care: A cross-sectional study. PLoS ONE 19(3): e0299289. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299289
3. Liane R Ginsburg, Adam Easterbrook, Ariane Massie, Whitney Berta, Malcolm Doupe, Matthias Hoben, Peter Norton, Colin Reid, Yuting Song, Adrian Wagg, Carole Estabrooks, Building a Program Theory of Implementation Using Process Evaluation of a Complex Quality Improvement Trial in Nursing Homes, The Gerontologist, Volume 64, Issue 2, February 2024, gnad064, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad064
4. GINSBURG L., Hoben, M., Berta, W., Doupe, M., Estabrooks, C. A., Norton, P. G., Reid, C., Geerts, A., & Wagg, A. (2024). Development and validation of the Overall Fidelity Enactment Scale for Complex Interventions (OFES-CI). BMJ quality & safety, bmjqs-2023-016001. 33(2):98-108. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2023-016001
5. Fox, M.T. & Butler, J.I. (2023). Rural family caregivers’ preparedness for detecting and responding to the signs of worsening health conditions in patients at risk for hospital readmission: A qualitative descriptive study. BMJ Open; 13:e076149. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076149. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/12/e076149
6. Khan D, Edgell H, Rotondi M, Tamim H^*#. The association between shift work exposure and cognitive impairment among middle-aged and older adults: Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). PLoS One. 2023 Aug 23;18(8):e0289718. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289718. PMID: 37610977; PMCID: PMC10446236.
7. Khan D, Verschoor C, Edgell H, Rotondi M, Tamim H^*#. The Association Between Shift Work Exposure and Frailty Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults: Results From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. J Occup Environ Med. 2023 May 1;65(5):355-361. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002806. Epub 2023 Oct 3. PMID: 36898008. Paper was selected as one of the articles included in the CME exam for the May 2023 issue. Video summary | Media news
8. Azizi, Alipour, P., Rotondi, M., & Ardern, C. I. (2021). Abstract P207: Association Between Rehabilitation and Functional Outcomes of Stroke Survivors: A Population- Based Study. Stroke (1970), 52(Suppl_1),AP207-.https://doi.org/10.1161/str.52.suppl 1.p207.
9. Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Tamara Daly, Catherine Aubrecht, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Susan Braedley, (Oct, 2021) Leadership for Quality in Long Term Care, Healthcare Management Forum. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08404704211040747
10. Fox, M.T., Sidani, S, Butler, J.I., Skinner, M.W., Macdonald, M., Durocher, E., Hunter, K.F., Wagg, A., Weeks, L.E. MacLeod, A. Dahlke, S. (2021). Optimizing hospital-to-home transitions for older persons in rural communities: A participatory, multimethod study protocol, Implementation Science Communications, 2, 81. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-021-00179-w
11. Donna Baines and Tamara Daly, (2021) Borrowed Time and Solidarity: The Multi-Scalar Politics of Time and Gendered Care Work, Social Politics Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, jxz017, (online 2019) https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxz017
12. Kalogirou, M. R., Dahlke, S., Davidson, S., Hunter, K. F., Swoboda, N., Fox, M., Baumbusch, J., Pollard, C., Saylers, V., Raymond, C. (2021). Working with older people: Beginning or end of a nurse’s career? International Journal of Older People Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/opn.12407
13. Tamara Daly, Ivy Bourgeault and Katie Aubrect, Moving long-term care from a vicious to a virtuous cycle Policy Options, Institute for Research on Public Policy, May 24, 2021 https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2021/moving-long-term-care-from-a-vicious-to-a-virtuous-cycle/
14. Nowrouzi-Kia, V., Fox, M.T., Sidani, S., Dahlke, S., & Tregunno. D. (2021). The comparison of role conflict among registered nurses and registered practical nurses working in acute care hospitals in Ontario, Canada, Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, May 27:8445621211014421. doi: 10.1177/08445621211014421. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34042538
15. Tamara Daly, Jacqueline Choiniere,Hugh Armstrong, (2020) “Code Work: RAI-MDS, Measurement, Quality and Work Organization in Long-term Residential Care in Ontario” in Health Matters. eds. Eric Mykhlovskiy, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Jacqueline Choiniere. University of Toronto Press.
16. Armstrong, P., Armstrong, H., MacDonald, M., & Doupe, M. (2020). Privatization of Long- Term Residential Care in Canada: The Case of Three Provinces. In The Privatization Care (1st Ed., Vol. 1, pp. 87-101). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429323669
17. Mitchell, G., Dupuis, S. L., Kontos, P., Jonas-Simpson, C., & Gray, J. (2020). Disrupting dehumanizing and intersecting patterns of modernity with a relational ethic of caring. International Practice Development Journal, 10(1), 1-15. https://www.fons.org/library/journal/volume10-issue1/article2
18. Keefe, Janice, Mary Jean Hande, Katie Aubrecht, Tamara Daly, Denise Cloutier, Deanne Taylor, Matthias Hoben, Keli Stajduhar, Heather Cook, Ivy Bourgeault, Leah MacDonald, and Carole Estabrooks. (2020). “Team-Based Integrated Knowledge Translation For Enhancing Quality Of Life In Long Term Care Settings: A Multi-Method, Multi-Sectoral Research Design.” International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Vol 9, Issue 4, pp 138-142.
19. Tamara Daly, Ivy Bourgeault and Katie Aubrect, Long-term care work is essential but essentially under-recognized, Policy Options, Institute for Research on Public Policy, May 14, 2020.  https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2020/long-term-care-work-is-essential-but-essentially-under-recognized/
20. Tamara Daly, (2019) Public Funds, Private Data: A Canadian Example, The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes, Routledge Press.
21. Wood, T., Daly, T., & Armstrong, P. (2019). Contracting Care: Evaluating the effects of the "Second Generation Health System Strategy" on the Contracting Environment for Community Organizations in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36362
22. Virdo, G., & Daly, T. (2019). How do supervisor support and social care matter in long-term care? Correlates of turnover contemplation among long-term care facility workers. International Journal of Care and Caring. [abstract]
23. Pat Armstrong and Tamara Daly, (2018) “Complexities, Tensions, and Promising Practices: Work in Long-term Residential Care”, Care Work ed. by Doria Pilling and Karen Christensen, Ashgate Books, pp. 289-301.
24. Tamara Daly, Chapter 5. The Quality Conundrum, (2018) Tensions In Long Term Care: Conversations Worth Having, CCPA.
25. Lowndes, R., Daly, T., & Armstrong, P. (2018). “Leisurely Dining”: Exploring how work organization, informal care, and dining spaces shape residents’ experiences of eating in long-term residential care. Qualitative Health Research, 28(1), 126–144.
26. Brassolotto, J., Daly, T., Armstrong, P., & Naidoo, V. (2017). Experiences of moral distress by privately hired companions in Ontario's long-term care facilities. Quality in ageing and older adults, 18(1), 58–68. [PDF]
27. Ford-Jones, P., & Daly, T. (2017). Volunteers' experiences delivering a community-university chronic disease health awareness program for South Asian older adults. Journal of Community Health, 42(6), 1148-1155. [PDF]
28. Meisner, B. A., & Binnington, L. E. (2017). I’m so glad you’re here: Positive aspects of informal caregiving. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 65(1), 25-26.
29. Armstrong, H. & Daly, T. J. & Choiniere, J. A. (2016). Policies and Practices: The Case of RAI-MDS in Canadian Long-Term Care Homes. Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes50(2), 348-367. University of Toronto Press.
30. Brassolotto, J., & Daly, T. (2016). Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia. Social Science & Medicine, 152, 138-146.
31. Daly, T., Struthers, J., Müller, B., Taylor, D., Goldmann, M., Doupe, M., & Jacobsen, F. F. (2016). Prescriptive or Interpretive Regulation at the Frontlines of Care Work in the "Three Worlds" of Canada, Germany and Norway. Labour (Committee on Canadian Labour History), 77, 37–71.
32. Syed, I., Daly, T., Armstrong, P., Lowndes, R. Chadoin, M., Naidoo, V. (2016). How do work hierarchies and strict divisions of labour impact care workers’ experiences of health and safety? Case studies of long term care in Toronto. The Journal of Nursing Home Research Sciences. Volume 2, p. 1-9.
33. Baines, D., & Daly, T. (2015). Resisting regulatory rigidities: Lessons from front-line care work. Studies in Political Economy, 95(1), 137-160.
34. Daly, T. (2015). Dancing the two-step in Ontario’s long-term care sector: Deterrence regulation = consolidation. Studies in Political Economy, 95:1, 29-58.
35. Sidani, S. & Fox, M. (2014). Patient-Centered Care: Clarification of its Specific Elements. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 28(2), 134-141.
36. Mitchell, G. J. (2013). Implications of Holding Ideas of Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing. Nursing Science Quarterly, 26(2), 143–151.
37. Mitchell, G. J., Cross, N., Wilson, M., Biernacki, S., Wong, W., Adib, B., & Rush, D. (2013). Complexity and health coaching: Synergies in nursing. Nursing Research and Practice, 2013.
38. Daly, T., & Szebehely, M. (2012). Unheard voices, unmapped terrain: care work in long-term residential care for older people in Canada and Sweden. International journal of social welfare, 21(2), 139–148. [PDF]
39. Meisner, B. A. (2012). Physicians’ attitudes toward aging, the aged, and the provision of geriatric care: A systematic narrative review. Critical Public Health, 22(1), 61-72.
40. Banerjee, A., Daly, T., Armstrong, P., Szebehely, M., Armstrong, H., & Lafrance, S. (2012). Structural violence in long-term, residential care for older people: comparing Canada and Scandinavia. Social science & medicine (1982), 74(3), 390–398.
41. Daly, T., Banerjee, A., Armstrong, P., Armstrong, H., & Szebehely, M. (2011). Lifting the ‘Violence Veil’: Examining Working Conditions in Long-term Care Facilities Using Iterative Mixed Methods. Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement, 30(2), 271-284.
42. Kontos, P. C., Miller, K., Mitchell, G. J., & Cott, C. A. (2010). Dementia care at the intersection of regulation and reflexivity: A critical realist perspective. Journal of Gerontology, 66B(1), 119-128.
43. Kontos, P. C., Miller, K., & Mitchell, G. J. (2009). Neglecting the importance of the decision making and care regimes of personal support workers: A critique of standardization of care planning through the RAI/MDS. The Gerontologist, 50(3), 352-362.
44. Armstrong, P., & Armstrong, H. (2005). Public and Private: Implications for Care Work. The Sociological Review, 53(2_suppl), 167–187.
45. Bourgeault, I. L., Armstrong, P. , Armstrong, H. , Choiniere, J. , Lexchin, J. , Mykhalovskiy, E. , Peters, S. and White, J. (2001), Everyday experiences of implicit rationing: comparing the voices of nurses in California and British Columbia. Sociology of Health & Illness, 23: 633-653.
46. White, J. P., Armstrong, H. , Armstrong, P. , Bourgeault, I. , Choiniere, J. and Mykhalovskiy, . E. (2000), The impact of managed care on nurses’ workplace learning and teaching. Nursing Inquiry, 7: 74-80.

Labour, Gender, and Precarity

5. Baines, D., & Daly, T. (2019). Borrowed time and solidarity: The multi-scalar politics of time and gendered care work, social politics. International Studies in Gender, State & Society. 1-20.
6. Pritlove, C., Safai, P., Angus, J. E., Armstrong, P., Jones, J. M., & Parsons, J. (2019). "It's hard work": A feminist political economy approach to reconceptualizing "work" in the cancer context. Qualitative Health Research, 29(5), 758-773 [PDF].
7. Baines, D., Charlesworth, S., & Daly, T. (2016). Underpaid, unpaid, unseen, unheard and unhappy? Care work in the context of constraint. Journal of Industrial Relations, 58(4), 449–454.
8. Barken, R., Daly, T. J., & Armstrong, P. (2016). Family matters: The work and skills of family/friend carers in long-term residential care. Journal of Canadian Studies, 50(2), 321-347.
9. Brassolotto, J., & Daly, T. (2016). Domesticating dialysis: A feminist political economy analysis of informal renal care in rural British Columbia. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographie Canadien.
10. Chadoin, M., Messing, K., Daly, T., & Armstrong, P. (2016). ≪ Si ce n’est pas documenté, ça n’a pas été fait ≫: quand les indicateurs de gestion escamotent le travail invisible des femmes [≪ If it's not documented, it's not done ≫: Management indicators of workload can leave women's work invisible]. PISTES, 18(2), 4830 [PDF].
11. Daly, T. & Armstrong, P. (2016) “Liminal and invisible long-term care: precarity in the face of austerity” Journal of Industrial Relations, special issue on Care Work.
12. Banerjee, A. B., Armstrong, P., Daly, T., Armstrong, H., & Braedley, S. (2015). “Careworkers don't have a voice:” Epistemological violence in residential care for older people. Journal of Aging Studies, 33, 28-36.
13. Daly, T., Armstrong, P., & Lowndes, R. (2015). Liminality in Ontario’s long-term care facilities: Private companions’ care work in the space ‘betwixt and between.’ Competition & Change, 19(3), 246–263.
14. Armstrong, P. (2013). Puzzling skills: Feminist political economy approaches. Canadian Sociological Association, 50(3), 256-283 [PDF].
15. Armstrong, P. (2013). Time, race, gender, and care: Communicative and strategic action in ancillary care commentary on Carol Levine's “caring for money”. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 6(2), 118-121. [abstract [PDF]]
16. Armstrong, P., Armstrong, H. (2008). Bringing it home: Women's health work. Women's Health and Urban Life, 7(2), 6-15 [PDF].
17. Armstrong, P. (2007). Back to basics: Seeking pay equity for women in Canada. Labour & Industry, 18(2), 11-32.
18. Armstrong, P., & Armstrong, H. (2002). Thinking it through: Women, work and caring in the new millennium. Canadian Woman Studies, 21:1, 44-50.