Home care systems have undergone major transformation in the last twenty years, manifesting as a volatile series of policy changes in Ontario, Canada. This includes increasing attention to direct funding (DF) home care where individuals receive cash transfers to arrange their own services. Through a textual analysis of 101 media and grey literature sources about DF home care in Ontario published between 2011 and 2018, we find three interrelated, yet sometimes conflicting, discourses in public circulation. DF is represented as: (1) a ‘fix’ to the challenges of mainstream home care; (2) a form of marketization; and (3) as social transformation. We argue that these discourses reflect a neoliberal policy climate that depoliticizes and instrumen...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis addressed the issue of identifying an indicator(...
Major Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management...
grantor: University of TorontoThis research focuses on the reform of community-based Long ...
Home care is an integral aspect of Ontarios health care system. Services provided to individuals may...
Directly funded (DF) home care is a policy mechanism where individuals are given funds to arrange th...
Direct Funding (DF) provides individuals with a budget to arrange their own home care instead of rec...
In 2017, the federal Liberal government confirmed the new Canadian Health Accord, which included a t...
Over the last several decades, there has been an increased interest in cash-for-care programs intern...
Produced by the Centre for Global Social Policy in the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of To...
In Canada, home care provides health and social services to an estimated one million people, most of...
Since the 2000s, the organisations in the home-care sector, which have traditionally been nonprofit,...
In Canada and internationally, increases in Home Care (HC) services for the elderly have been a pol...
In the mid-1990s, the province of Ontario instituted a new model of “managed competition” to govern ...
An ideal of "home" as the best site for living and dying in old age has become embedded in residenti...
This article aims at studying the dynamics of organized home care and particular problems in the del...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis addressed the issue of identifying an indicator(...
Major Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management...
grantor: University of TorontoThis research focuses on the reform of community-based Long ...
Home care is an integral aspect of Ontarios health care system. Services provided to individuals may...
Directly funded (DF) home care is a policy mechanism where individuals are given funds to arrange th...
Direct Funding (DF) provides individuals with a budget to arrange their own home care instead of rec...
In 2017, the federal Liberal government confirmed the new Canadian Health Accord, which included a t...
Over the last several decades, there has been an increased interest in cash-for-care programs intern...
Produced by the Centre for Global Social Policy in the Faculty of Arts and Science, University of To...
In Canada, home care provides health and social services to an estimated one million people, most of...
Since the 2000s, the organisations in the home-care sector, which have traditionally been nonprofit,...
In Canada and internationally, increases in Home Care (HC) services for the elderly have been a pol...
In the mid-1990s, the province of Ontario instituted a new model of “managed competition” to govern ...
An ideal of "home" as the best site for living and dying in old age has become embedded in residenti...
This article aims at studying the dynamics of organized home care and particular problems in the del...
grantor: University of TorontoThis thesis addressed the issue of identifying an indicator(...
Major Research Paper (Master's), Critical Disability Studies, School of Health Policy and Management...
grantor: University of TorontoThis research focuses on the reform of community-based Long ...