Full Description
This 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.
Contents
Contents:
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 169
