Join us on May 5 for “Creating the Conditions for Care” with Pat Armstrong

On May 5, CGSP will host the next edition of our Care Economies in Context Speaker Series. Join us as we welcome Dr. Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University and Royal Society of Canada Fellow, for a presentation entitled “Creating the Conditions for Care.” Dr. Armstrong’s talk will be followed by a Q/A session.

Abstract

In our years of studying paid and unpaid care, we have come to realize that the conditions of work are the conditions of care. In this presentation, I will look at what we have learned about the conditions in hospitals, home care and long-term care in order to identify some of the conditions that not only make care possible but also rewarding. Searching for promising practices in conditions for care also means recognizing diversity and especially, how care work is primarily women’s work.

Biography

Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University, Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She held a ten-year Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services, chaired Women and Health Care Reform, a group funded for more than a decade by Health Canada and was acting co-director of the National Network for Environments and Women’s Health, co-director at York of the Ontario Training Centre, and both Chair of the York’s Department of Sociology at York and Director of the Carleton’s School of Canadian Studies. More recently, she was a member of the Technical Committee of the Health Standards Organization and of the Congregate Care sub-group of the Ontario Science Table. Focusing on the fields of social policy, of women, work and the health and social services, she has published widely, authoring or co-authoring such books as The Labour Crisis in Long-Term Care, Wash, Wear and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care: Critical to Care: the Invisible Women in Health Services; Wasting Away; The Undermining of Canadian Health Care; About Canada: Health Care and co-edited books such as The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes; Health Matters: Evidence, Critical Social Science and Health Care in Canada. In addition, she has published widely in academic journals and popular media and served as an expert witness in more than twenty cases heard before courts and tribunals in Canada.