Author: negeeny
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Happy holidays from the Age-Friendly Team!
As we wrap up the year, we want to thank you for your continued support and engagement with us and our project. Wishing you a season filled with rest, connection, and joy-and a new year full of possibility, progress, and shared purpose!
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Chapter 6: Ageing, intersectionality, social location and identity
This week, in Chapter 6 our authors- Donna Baines and Renate Ysseldyk look at aging as both a site of possibility and struggle, particularly in urban spaces. This chapter challenges the reader to think more critically about how cities, policies, and social care systems shape who gets to age well and who doesn’t. The chapter reminds…
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Counting care workers: when the ‘muddle’ is the message
In Chapter 5, Counting Care Workers: When the “Muddle” is the Message, authors Tamara Daly, Sara Charlesworth, Frode F. Jacobsen, and Katherine Laxer look at what we actually know about long-term care workers, the people who make care for older adults possible. Their big question: Do policymakers have the data they need to plan for…
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Chapter 4: Who gets counted? Ageing statistics and advancing age equity
This week we are covering Chapter 4, Who gets counted? Ageing statistics and advancing age equity, authored by Madeline McCoy and Renate Ysseldyk. Our authors this week take on a very interesting topic- Who is actually included in data sets and who isn’t? When it comes to older adults, much research relies heavily on national and international…
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Chapter 3: Age-friendly for all? Equality and equity in the changing landscape of the social democratic welfare state
In this week we are covering Chapter 3, Age-friendly for all? Equality and equity in the changing landscape of the social democratic welfare state authored by Gudmund Ågotnes and Bodil H. Blix. In this chapter our authors discuss how Nordic countries are often celebrated for their strong social welfare systems but these systems are built on a key…
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Chapter 2: Traversing the cityscape: locating age-friendly, age inclusion and age equity
In this week we are covering Chapter 2, Traversing the cityscape: locating age-friendly, age inclusion and age equity, authored by Tamara Daly and Tesia Wood. This chapter takes a deep dive into global ageing and health paradigms—the ideas and assumptions that influence everything from public policy and social programs to the types of care older adults…
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Chapter 1: Ageing with care: aiming for equity and inclusion
Our teams book AGEING EQUITABLY WITH CARE has been published on open access! The book is a carefully curated and edited book by team that covers the learnings from our project, the communities we have worked with and our partners. Each week we will be highlighting a chapter for our community. This week we are…
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New team member alert! Christine Streeter is joining our team as our new Postdoc.
Christine Streeter (PhD, Carleton University’s School of Social Work) is a social work scholar with practice-based experience in international community programming, program evaluation with youth-serving and non-profit organizations. Her research examines the emotional and structural conditions shaping care work in Canada’s non-profit social service and long-term care sectors, with projects on unpaid care work, labour…
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Ageing Equitably with Care: Power, Policy, Practice
Tamara Daly & Susan Braedley (eds.) Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence or purchase a hard copy from Policy Press 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,…
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‘Mind the gap’: tensions, transitions and tactics in Canadian and Norwegian community services for older adults
‘Mind the gap’: tensions, transitions and tactics in Canadian and Norwegian community services for older adults in: International Journal of Care and Caring – Ahead of print
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Low-barrier harm reduction and housing for older people in Vancouver’s opiate crisis: meeting people where they are
Baines, D., Braedley, S., Daly, T., Hillier, S., & Cabahug, F. (2024). Low-barrier harm reduction and housing for older people in Vancouver’s opiate crisis: meeting people where they are. Critical and Radical Social Work (published online ahead of print 2024).
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Counter-narratives of active aging: Disability, trauma and joy in the age-friendly city
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Learning to Live Well within Limits: Exploring the Existential Lessons of Climate Change and an Aging Population
Banerjee, A. (2023). “Learning to Live Well within Limits: Exploring the Existential Lessons of Climate Change and an Aging Population.” In, Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Growing Old amid Climate Change, edited by Nassim W. Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Ulla Kriebernegg. Lexington Press, 183-198.
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Imagine Aging 