Professor Emeritus Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Profession of the Department of Sociology, has co-edited a newly published book entitled, The Labour Crisis in Long-term Care: The Right to Care. The other two editors include Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at York University and Hugh Armstrong, Professor Emeritus of Social Work and Political Economy at Carleton University.
Using in-depth historical and empirical research to examine the widely acknowledged crisis in the long-term care labour force, experts compare labour force strategies in countries including Canada, Norway and Sweden. The goal is to rethink approaches to the long-term care labour force by promoting the right care to quality long-term care and how innovative approaches should be use in recruiting, retaining and reorganizing the labour force.
Karen Messing from the Université du Québec à Montréal wrote, “Health care quality suffers from profound misunderstanding of its constraints and allowances. In this extraordinarily stimulating book, Pat Armstrong’s group explains exactly why and how these problems arise. They explore the intertwining of conditions of care work and those of residents in long-term care, and the burden placed on those (primarily women) who provide and receive it. They also flag current tendencies that undermine best care practices. Let’s hope all these governments are listening!”
Pat Armstrong held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services and is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
The book was published by Edward Elgar Publishing.