Home & Community Care
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From  Growing Up RadicalFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter introduces Ann Livingston. A single mother on welfare, Livingston moved to the Downtown Eastside with her three boys in 1993, and was moved to act by the sight of people shooting up … | Travis Lupick | 20 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Home Care and Other ServicesFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines the Canadian home care system through the lived experiences of family caregivers. | Kimberly Fraser | 36 | 2022 | $3.60 Add |
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From Hotel of Last ResortFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … | Travis Lupick | 34 | 2017 | $1.02 Add |
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From Hundred Block RockFrom: Fighting For Space |
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bud Osborn was part of a grassroots group of addicts who transformed how the City of Vancouver treats people addicted to drugs. He helped pioneer North … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From Information NeedsFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines the information gap that family caregivers face when navigating a fragmented and siloed health care system. | Kimberly Fraser | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From Introduction: How It BeganFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this foreword, Fraser examines the growing North American caregiving crisis, where approximately eight million Canadians and sixty-five million Americans provide unpaid care to a loved one. | Kimberly Fraser | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Introduction: The DilemmaFrom: The Doctors We Need |
In this chapter, Sanfilippo examines how the Canada Health Act’s promise of universal care remains unfulfilled for fifteen percent of the population. | Anthony Sanfilippo | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Living with a DisabilityFrom: Making a Home |
Powley reflects on what it is like to live with a disability. She discusses the need for group homes, ableism, accessible accommodation, and her own personal experiences living in Nova Scotia as … | Jen Powley | 32 | 2023 | $3.20 Add |
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NEW! Making a HomeAssisted Living in the Community for Young Disabled People |
In some Canadian provinces, people with severe physical disabilities are simply warehoused in nursing homes, where many people, especially in the age of homecare, are in the final stages of their … | Jen Powley | 136 | 2023 | View |
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From Mapping Your WayFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines how family caregivers navigate an unprepared, gradual journey. | Kimberly Fraser | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From Meaninfgul ConversationsFrom: The Accidental Caregiver |
In this chapter, Fraser examines how the quality of communication shapes the daily experience of family caregivers. | Kimberly Fraser | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
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From Miami, FloridaFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 2015, Manatee County saw heroin kill more people than any other jurisdiction in Florida, a state that’s been hit particularly hard by the drug’s arrival to Middle American. Heroin … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
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From Opening DayFrom: Fighting For Space |
This heartwarming chapter outlines the opening day of Insite. Vacouver was now home to one-of-a-kind facility in North American continent whose sole purpose was harm reduction and better living … | Travis Lupick | 23 | 2017 | $0.46 Add |
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From Prescription HeroinFrom: Fighting For Space |
The Downtown Eastside had accomplished a lot as a community. In 2004, Dr. Martin Schechter had secured funding to launch a heroin-maintenance program out of a small clinic in the Downtown … | Travis Lupick | 29 | 2017 | $0.58 Add |
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From Protests across CanadaFrom: Fighting For Space |
Even though Insite became operational, the activists knew they were on borrowed time as the continuity of this project was in the tenuous hands of the changing government. Keeping this in mind, … | Travis Lupick | 32 | 2017 | $0.96 Add |
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From Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
