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OverviewThis thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care homes in our post-pandemic world. Building on more than a decade of collaborative international and interdisciplinary research in Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, it employs a feminist political economy framework to address the key challenges facing care homes in this turbulent era. With particular attention to lessons learned in Canada, Sweden, and Norway, the contributing authors argue that publicly-funded care homes remain critical to care arrangements but require policy and practice transformations to produce equitable and supportive conditions. Attentive to the specific contexts and tensions that shape care, chapters address key questions about care home quality and labour in relation to gender, race, ethnicity, religion and class. The book analyses the physical and social boundaries that set the conditions for quality of life and care, moving beyond the minimum to explain how nursing homes can provide joy. Offering alternative approaches to the complex challenges facing this vital public service, this book will be a key reference for students and scholars of health policy, comparative social policy and social work. Its integration of statistical, policy and practice analysis with ethnographic research will prove invaluable to those concerned with long-term care policy and practice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pat Armstrong , Susan BraedleyPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN: 9781803925813ISBN 10: 1803925817 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 08 August 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: 1 Care homes in crisis: promising ways forward 1 Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley 2 Piercing the corporate veil: nursing home ownership in turbulent times 19 Hugh Armstrong 3 What’s critical to care? 34 Pat Armstrong, Jacqueline Choiniere, Charlene Harrington, and Marta Szebehely 4 The crisis in the nursing home labour force: where is the political will? 50 Pat Armstrong, Frode F. Jacobsen, Monique Lanoix, and Marta Szebehely 5 Negotiating internal and external boundaries of nursing homes during Covid-19: a case study from Norway 67 Gudmund Ågotnes and Frode F. Jacobsen 6 Are safer, welcoming care homes possible? Considering physical environments 82 Susan Braedley and Pat Armstrong 7 Family members and nursing home care: lessons from Ontario and Sweden during Covid-19 99 Ruth Lowndes, Jacqueline Choiniere, and Petra Ulmanen 8 Equity and diversity in nursing home care: lessons from Canada and Sweden 117 Prince Owusu, Susan Braedley, and Palle Storm 9 Regulation and accountability in the care home sector: expert commentaries 137 Albert Banerjee, Hugh Armstrong, Pat Armstrong, Frode F. Jacobsen, Charlene Harrington, and James Struthers 10 Making joy possible in care home policies and practices 151 Susan Braedley, Pat Armstrong, and Janna Klostermann Index 169Reviews‘Unmissable for all who plan, study or experience later life care. Based on meticulous research, the book offers crucial insights into life in care homes for residents, families and workers – and many ideas for improvement. Never flinching from big questions – home ownership, residents’ rights, communication challenges – its scope includes exciting new thinking about diversity, difference, accountability and joy.’ -- Sue Yeandle, University of Sheffield, UK ‘Care homes are not entities of the past, but of the future. Based on extensive research from Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, this excellent book shows what it takes to allow people who live or work in care homes not just to survive but to thrive.’ -- Teppo Kröger, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 'Care homes are not entities of the past, but of the future. Based on extensive research from Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, this excellent book shows what it takes to allow people who live or work in care homes not just to survive but to thrive.' -- Teppo Kroeger, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Author InformationEdited by Pat Armstrong, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Department of Sociology, York University, Toronto and Susan Braedley, Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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