Envisions alternative forms of long-term, residential care that account for the fact that the overwhelming majority of both residents and providers are women.
Table of contents: Preface (Pat Armstrong)
Contributors
1. Challenging Questions: Designing Long-Term Facility Care with Women in Mind (Pat Armstrong with Albert Banerjee)
2. Long-Term Care in Canada: An Overview (Albert Banerjee)
3. Less Money, More People: The Implications of Policy Changes in Long-Term Institutional Care (Evelyn Shapiro and Morgan Seeley)
4. A Contradictory Image of Need: Long-Term Facilitative Care for First Nations (Nicole Eshkakogan and Nene Ernest Khalema)
5. A Dream Retirement Community: Long-Term Care Options (Beverly Suek)
6. What Matters to Women Working in Long-Term Care: A Union Perspective (Marcy Cohen)
7. Designing Long-Term Care for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transsexual and Transgender People (Dick Moore)
8. A Failure of Vision and Political Will: Long-Term Care in Ontario(Sheila M. Neysmith)
9. Are There Lessons to Learn from Sweden? (Marta Szebehely)
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Looks at the principles and practices that underpin the operations of the best long-term care facilities and makes recommendations on choosing a long-term care establishment.
Looks into the way that tension has influenced federal and provincial policies that determine how and whether home care is delivered in every part of the country.
Examines how best to structure the ethical framework within which equitable, fair, rational, and transparent decisions about long-term care can be made. Elaborates on such issues as gender, bias, discrimination, scarcity, productivity, the role of the family, and institutional care, to name a few.
The AADL program helps Albertans with a long-term disability, chronic illness or terminal illness to maintain their independence at home, in lodges or group homes by providing financial assistance to buy medical equipment and supplies. An assessment by a health care professional determines the equipment and supplies that an Albertan can receive through this program.
