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- Armstrong, Pat, et al.
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Conclusion: a labour of love is still labour
- 2023
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Ingår i: Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes. - Bristol : Policy Press. - 9781447366164 - 9781447366188 ; , s. 127-130
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Beginning with an overview of the various forms of unpaid labour done by and for those who live in, visit and work in nursing homes, this chapter identifies the conditions in Norway, Sweden and Canada that shape this work in particular, and different ways to bring both rewards and tensions to the various players. It demonstrates that the boundaries between paid and unpaid work are flexible, based more on conditions than on choice. It argues that naming unpaid labour as work does not eliminate care – or love for that matter. Rather, it calls attention to the conditions that are required to keep the care and the love in this labour.
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- Armstrong, Pat, et al.
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Structural violence in long-term residential care
- 2011
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Ingår i: Women’s health and urban life. - 1499-0369. ; 10:1, s. 111-129
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Drawing on survey responses from 948 personal support workers providing care in long-term residential facilities in three Canadian provinces, and from 1574 responses to a comparable survey in four Nordic European countries, we document the levels of violence found particularly inCanada. Almost half of the Canadian workers, about 95 % of whom are women, experience violence on a daily or almost daily basis. This is over six times the rate experienced among similar workers in the Nordic countries. Canadian participants reported constant and ongoing physical, verbal and sexual violence. These workers are usually expected to tolerate this abuse as part of the job. Moreover, as is often the case with women’s working conditions, it is underreported, invisible and seldom addressed. The comparison with Nordic Europe demonstrates that the violence is not inevitable. We discuss several of its sources, and avenues of recourse identified through gender-based analysis of the Canadian and Nordic data and follow-up interviews. Insufficient staffing levels constitute a primary cause that prevents over-burdened workers from providing adequate care.
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- Banerjee, Albert, et al.
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Structural violence in long-term residential care for older people: Comparing Canada and Scandinavia
- 2012
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Ingår i: Social Science and Medicine. - : Elsevier BV. - 0277-9536 .- 1873-5347. ; 74:3, s. 390-398
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Canadian frontline careworkers are six times more likely to experience daily physical violence than their Scandinavian counterparts. This paper draws on a comparative survey of residential careworkers serving older people across three Canadian provinces (Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario) and four countries that follow a Scandinavian model of social care (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) conducted between 2005 and 2006. Ninety percent of Canadian frontline careworkers experienced physical violence from residents or their relatives and 43 percent reported physical violence on a daily basis. Canadian focus groups conducted in 2007 reveal violence was often normalized as an inevitable part of elder-care. We use the concept of “structural violence”(Galtung, 1969) to raise questions about the role that systemic and organizational factors play in setting the context for violence. Structural violence refers to indirect forms of violence that are built into social structures and that prevent people from meeting their basic needs or fulfilling their potential. We applied the concept to long-term residential care and found that the poor quality of the working conditions and inadequate levels of support experienced by Canadian careworkers constitute a form of structural violence.Working conditions are detrimental to careworker's physical and mental health, and prevent careworkers from providing the quality of care they are capable of providing and understand to be part of their job. These conditions may also contribute to the violence workers experience, and further investigation is warranted.
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- Daly, Tamara, et al.
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Lifting the Violence Veil : Examining Working Conditions in Long-Term Care Facilities using Iterative Mixed Methods
- 2011
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Ingår i: Canadian Journal on Aging. - 0714-9808 .- 1710-1107. ; 30:2, s. 271-284
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We conducted a mixed-methods study – the focus of this article – to understand how workers in long-term care facilities experienced working conditions. We surveyed unionized care workers in Ontario (n = 917); we also surveyed workers in three Canadian provinces (n = 948) and four Scandinavian countries (n = 1,625). In post-survey focus groups, we presented respondents with survey questions and descriptive statistical fi ndings, and asked them: “Does this reflect your experience?” Workers reported time pressures and the frequency of experiences of physical violence and unwanted sexual attention, as we explain. We discuss how iteratively mixing qualitative and quantitative methods to triangulate survey and focus group results led to expected data convergence and to unexpected data divergence that revealed a normalized culture of structural violence in long-term care facilities. We discuss how the finding of structural violence emerged and also the deeper meaning, context, and insights resulting from our combined methods.
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- Armstrong, Perry, et al.
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Meeting the CDIO Requirements : An International Comparison of Engineering Curricula
- 2006
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Ingår i: World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education. - : Unesco. - 1446-2257. ; 5:2, s. 263-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the Conceive – Design – Implement – Operate (CDIO) Syllabus and CDIO Standards are introduced, and the question is posed as to whether or not national circumstances affect the ability of engineering programmes to meet CDIOrequirements. In particular, the extent to which representative programmes from the USA, Canada, Sweden and the UK cover the CDIO Syllabus is assessed and conclusions are drawn. The international applicability of the CDIO Syllabus also depends on the absence of conflict between the syllabus and national accreditation criteria. Based on the countries considered, the authors suggest that no conflict exists. Furthermore, it is argued that the CDIO Syllabus is aspirational and, as such, it complements the threshold requirements of national accreditation criteria. It is also argued that the CDIO Syllabus, coupled with the CDIO Standards, could form the basis for an international benchmark that would co-exist with any future global accreditation criteria and would serve to continuously improve engineering education.
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- Armstrong, Pat, et al.
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What's critical to care?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Care Homes in a Turbulent Era. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781803925820 - 9781803925813 ; , s. 34-49
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