Afraid to care; unable to care: A critical ethnography within a long-term care home |
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Authors: | Ryan DeForge Paula van Wyk Jodi Hall Alan Salmoni |
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Institution: | aSchool of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, Elborn College, London Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7;bSchool of Kinesiology, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Richmond Street, 3M Centre, London Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7 |
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Abstract: | This paper describes the findings of a critical ethnographic research study conducted in an urban long-term care home. While our intention was to learn more about the culture of care, specifically as it relates to mental health care provision, the participants in the study consistently spoke with us about (what we have labeled as) a culture of compliance. In a context where new long-term care legislation is being implemented along with new, standardized resident assessment instruments, gaining a deeper understanding of the (un)intended consequences of government's efforts to ensure a high quality of care is of paramount importance. This research demonstrates how policy-driven structural mechanisms can (re)produce conditions that result in frontline staff being afraid and unable to care, and thus contributes to a better understanding of the lived experience of frontline long-term care staff who find that their caregiving responsibilities are displaced by caregiving accountabilities. |
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