Care homes in a turbulent era : do they have a future? / / edited by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley

• Pubblicazione: Northampton : , : Edward Elgar Publishing, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.0425
• Soggetto topico: Congregate housing - Law and legislation; Congregate housing - Management; Institutional care - Government policy; Nursing homes - Law and legislation; Nursing homes - Management
• Persona (resp. second.): ArmstrongPat; BraedleySusan
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Care homes in crisis, promising ways forward -- 2. Piercing the corporate veil: nursing home ownership in turbulent times -- 3. What's critical to care? -- 4. The crisis in the nursing home labour force: where is the political will? -- 5. Negotiating internal and external boundaries of nursing homes during Covid-19: a case study from Norway -- 6. Are safer, welcoming care homes possible? Considering physical environments -- 7. Family members and nursing home care: lessons from Ontario and Sweden during Covid-19 -- 8. Equity and diversity in nursing home care: lessons from Canada and Sweden -- 9. Regulation and accountability in the care home sector: expert commentaries -- 10. Making joy possible in care home policies and practices -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care homes in our post-pandemic world. Building on more than a decade of collaborative international and interdisciplinary research in Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, it employs a feminist political economy framework to address the key challenges facing care homes in this turbulent era. With particular attention to lessons learned in Canada, Sweden, and Norway, the contributing authors argue that publicly-funded care homes remain critical to care arrangements but require policy and practice transformations to produce equitable and supportive conditions. Attentive to the specific contexts and tensions that shape care, chapters address key questions about care home quality and labour in relation to gender, race, ethnicity, religion and class. The book analyses the physical and social boundaries that set the conditions for quality of life and care, moving beyond the minimum to explain how nursing homes can provide joy. Offering alternative approaches to the complex challenges facing this vital public service, this book will be a key reference for students and scholars of health policy, comparative social policy and social work. Its integration of statistical, policy and practice analysis with ethnographic research will prove invaluable to those concerned with long-term care policy and practice"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Care Homes in a Turbulent Era
• ISBN: 1-80392-582-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910741370403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: In a Turbulent Era Series