Printer-friendly versionA look at the aging population of women who provide Canada’s long term residential care
When: Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. EDT
Where: online
Join us for a free event presented by the Canadian Women’s Health Network.
Presented by Prof. Pat Armstrong, York University
Moderated by Anne Rochon Ford, CWHN Executive Director
In Canada, 500,000 women spend 10 or more hours a week providing unpaid care or assistance to seniors. Twice as many women as men are doing this work, and women are two-thirds of the care workers over age 50.
The health consequences of unpaid care work for individual providers are well documented. There are rewards to providing care, but these rewards may well be outweighed by burdens that can be especially heavy in the absence of economic and other supports. Women’s health is more likely to suffer because they do most of the heavy, primary health care labour that is most commonly associated with negative health outcomes. And women are more likely than men to be poor.
Professor Pat Armstrong leads “Reimagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices,” a seven-year global study of long term residential care. In this webinar, she will present results that relate to the aging labour force. The goal of the research is not simply to highlight problems in long term care systems – Armstrong and her team want to recommend better practices from the systems they are studying that may provide solutions to longstanding problems leading to better working and living conditions for care workers.
Armstrong will respond to audience questions after her presentation.
To register for this webinar, please click here.
Production of this event has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.