Is there one best model for long-term residential care?

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Presenter:

Pat Armstrong, PhD, FRSC, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University

Pat Armstrong is Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto. She held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services, is a Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Focusing on equity in the fields of social policy of women, work and the health and social services, she has published widely, co-authoring more than a dozen books and co-editing another dozen, as well as many journal articles, book chapters and technical reports.

She was Chair of Women and Health Care Reform, a group funded for over a decade by Health Canada. Currently, she is Principal investigator of a now ten-year SSHRC-funded project on “Reimagining Long-term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices” and of “Changing Place: Unpaid Work in Public Places. She is also co- investigator on the “Invisible Women: Gender and the Shifting Division of Labour in Long-term Residential Care”, “Seniors- Adding Life to Years: Late Life Issues” and a study comparing nursing home working conditions in Canada and Nordic countries.

Summary

The Butterfly Model for long-term residential care has received a great deal of attention recently, especially in the Toronto media.

Based on 10 years of international, interdisciplinary research and on a recent study conducted for the City of Toronto, this webinar will consider the central principles in popular models for care, the evidence that supports them and recommendations related to them.

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