Category: Books & Book Chapters

In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand…

This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes. Instead, the capacity of the human body to reach…

Critical studies of aging need to consider how globalisation accelerates crises like climate change with impacts for the conditions of ageing. This chapter argues that research on ageing tends to consider policy change at the local or nation-state level. Yet, within and across jurisdictions, there is an increasing ‘longevity divide’, affected by economic globalisation, climate…

For many diasporic transnational families from so-called Eastern countries, older adults are ageing in between countries of origin and new places in the ‘West’ that differ markedly in ways that directly impact their experiences of aging. Drawing on the example of those families living between Lebanon and Canada, this chapter examines the research literature to develop a…

This chapter takes up the paid care work conditions in three countries, Australia, Canada and Norway, to focus on age-equity considerations for the many older workers who do it. Long-term care and home care are included in one of the eight age-friendly domains, ‘community supports and health services’. This analysis shows that poor conditions within long-term…

This chapter argues that age equity and decent care work must be key considerations in imagining a truly age-friendly world. First, it outlines the assumptions underlying the book’s concept of ‘age equity with care’. Second, it describes the collaborative research project to identify age-equitable policies and practices that has stimulated the development of this concept,…

What are the consequences of growing old and needing care in a world shaped by inequality? Who provides the care? What are the challenges? This groundbreaking book delves into conditions for ageing and caring, asking how they could be improved for different communities living in high-income welfare states. Emphasizing that equitable ageing depends on equitable…

Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US and Canada have been searching for promising…