Labour Crisis in Long-term Care

The Right to Care

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvPat Armstrong,Hugh Armstrong,Jacqueline A. Choiniere

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Incorporating in-depth historical and empirical research, this book examines the widely acknowledged crisis in the long-term care labour force. A diverse array of experts compare labour force strategies in Canada, Norway and Sweden and invite readers to rethink approaches to the long term care labour force, starting with the lives of those who do the work.Focusing on different dominant strategies, chapter authors analyze how innovative approaches might be employed to reorganize, retain, reduce, replace, and recruit workers. They assess each strategy in terms of promoting the right to care and explore limitations on the right to access quality care services and the right to provide quality long-term care. Ultimately, they argue that the conditions of work are the conditions of care, conditions that include the overall structures, policies and practices that shape the work and care.The Labour Crisis in Long-term Care is a thought-provoking book that will appeal to students and researchers in health services, aging, labour policy, sociology of work and social work. Managers, researchers and leaders in health care and health policy decision-makers will also benefit from this important resource.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-11-15
Mått210 x 234 x 160 mm
Vikt190 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781035340293

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Contents1 Introduction: quality care and quality work 1Pat Armstrong2 Reorganizing the long-term care sector in Ontario,Norway, and Sweden: does it address labour issues? 28Susan Braedley, Frode F. Jacobsen and Marta Szebehely3 Retaining workers: revisiting nursing home working conditions 53Jacqueline A. Choiniere, Christine Streeter, Frode F.Jacobsen, Hugh Armstrong, and Rebecka Strandell4 Reducing labour: aging in place, responsibilization,innovation, and public expectations in long-term care 76Gudmund Ågotnes, Susan Braedley, James Struthers, andMarta Szebehely5 Replacing labour? Welfare technology and long-term care 95Rebecka Strandell, Susan Braedley, and Frode F. Jacobsen6 Recruiting labour: the challenge of finding workers 118Martha MacDonald, Gudmund Ågotnes, and Marta Szebehely7 Rethinking labour force strategies 137Pat Armstrong

‘An essential volume that smartly reframes the current long-term care crisis as a labor force crisis. Drawing on feminist theory, the authors thoughtfully redefine care as a relationship built on the collective right to receive and to provide quality care. They carefully document how and why quality care for the largely female nursing home population depends heavily on the wages and working conditions of the industry’s largely female work force. Rejecting prevailing individualized explanations, they spell out much-needed systemic strategies to ensure that the “conditions of work are the condition of care.”’