Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care...

Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices

Principal Investigator: Pat Armstrong, York University
Dr. Braedley is one of 25 co-investigators on this project that will end in March 2019

About the study

Long-term residential care is often considered as failure, failure of the individual to maintain themselves, failure of their family to care and failure of the medical system to cure. But some people will always need residential care, and this should be a place where residents and workers who provide care experience a healthy, safe and joyful environment. However, in these neoliberal times, residents tend to be viewed as a growing burden to the system and workers are often viewed as an expense to be controlled and managed.

This study is of a moving target of change that affects us all, sooner or later. It is a gender issue, because women make up most of the residents, most of the workers and most of the people in communities and households who provide care. It is a social issue, in that it begs the question about who we, as a society, treat well and who we don’t. And it is a political issue, because the choices we make about long-term residential care are made in the realm of politics. It is complex, and our study reflects that complexity.

This study is a major collaborative research initiative funded by

We made an animated video from our research findings! We can do better in long-term care!

Digital Research Stories Worth Sharing

Forgetting: A Research Story about Dementia

To learn more about the study, visit our website HERE.

An international research team

Dr. Braedley is one of 25 international and interdisciplinary co-investigators on this project. Her work within this project focuses on:

ethnographic methods
residence design and care models
gender and racialization
Differences among public, non-profit and for-profit ownership

Publications

Susan Braedley (2018) Susan Braedley Reinventing the nursing home: metaphors that design care, in Stephen Katz (editor) Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 45-61.

Susan Braedley (2018) Ethics as Teamwork in Pat Armstrong and Ruth Lowndes Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid Site-Switching Ethnography. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.37-52.

Ruth Lowndes and Susan Braedley (2018) Snap Happy? The Promise and Problems of Photovoice in Pat Armstrong and Ruth Lowndes Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid Site-Switching Ethnography. New York: Oxford University Press

Susan Braedley, Anna Przednowek, Prince Owusu, Pat Armstrong “We’re told, ‘Suck it up’: Long-Term Care Workers’ Psychological Health and Safety” International Journal of Ageing (published on line May 5, 2017) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12126-017-9288-4) 80%

Storm, Palle, Susan Braedley and Sally Chivers, et al. (2017). “Gender Regimes in Ontario Nursing Homes: Organization, Daily Work, and Bodies.” Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement: Published online before print, March 21, 2017; Doi:10.1017/S0714980817000071.(33%)

Tamara Daly and Susan Braedley (2017) Let’s Talk about Sex…in Long-Term Care in P. Armstrong and T. Daly Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, pp. 69-76

Susan Braedley and Pat Armstrong (2017) Small Bites and Food in Sight in P. Armstrong and T. Daly Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, pp.45-54.

Susan Braedley and Marta Szebehely (2017) Opportunities to Problem-Solve: Conditions for Dementia Care in in P. Armstrong and T. Daly Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, pp.77-84.

Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (eds) (2016) Physical Environments for Long-Term Residential Care: Ideas Worth Sharing Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Susan Braedley “Cleaning Matters” in P. Armstrong and S. Braedley (eds) (2016) Physical Environments for Long-Term Residential Care: Ideas Worth Sharing Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley “Introduction” in P, Armstrong and S. Braedley (eds) (2016) Physical Environments for Long-Term Residential Care: Ideas Worth Sharing Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Susan Braedley and Albert Banerjee (2015) in D. Baines and P. Armstrong Promising Practices in Long-term Care: ideas worth sharing Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Susan Braedley, Gillian Martel Dreaming of Home: (In)Equities by Design; Studies in Political Economy 95 Spring 2015, pp. 59-81

Susan Braedley and Rosemary Warskett Regulating Care: An Introduction Studies in Political Economy 95 Spring 2015, pp. 3-6. (95%)

Albert Banerjee, Pat Armstrong, Tamara Daly, Hugh Armstrong, Susan Braedley “”Care workers Don’t Have a Voice:” Epistemological Violence in Residential Care for Older People” Journal of Aging Studies Journal of Aging Studies 33 (2015) 28–36 (10%)

Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (2013) Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press (50%)

Susan Braedley (2013) A Gender Politics of Long-term Care: Towards an Analysis in Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (eds). Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. Pp. 59-70.