Webinar: Reimagining Continuing Care

Seniors living in continuing care have suffered the greatest impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, and Alberta is no exception. Across the country, for-profit care operators have failed to hire enough staff or to implement necessary protections to keep residents safe. But for the advocates who have long called for action to address the ongoing crisis in our continuing care system, the tragic toll of this health care crisis comes as no surprise. COVID-19 has only exposed the many shortcomings of our seniors’ care, borne of decades of privatization and perpetual cost-cutting.

Join Friends of Medicare & Public Interest Alberta's Seniors' Task Force on January 20, 2020 for an important and timely online conversation on how our seniors' care system has fared before and throughout COVID-19, and how we can reimagine care to better protect our loved ones and their caregivers.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required! Reserve your spot at the link below!

Special guest speakers:

	DR MARGARET MCGREGOR is a family physician, health services and policy researcher, and advocate for primary and seniors’ healthcare reform. She is a clinical associate professor with the UBC Department of Family Practice. She is a research associate with the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute’s Centre for Clinical Epidemiology & Evaluation and the UBC Centre for Health Services Policy Research. She worked as a full-service family physician for 25 years at the Mid Main Community Health Centre in Vancouver, BC and currently works with the home-bound primary care program Home ViVE (Home Visits for Vancouver’s Elders).
	PAT ARMSTRONG is a Canadian sociologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has served as a Chair for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in Health Services and Nursing Research and the Department of Sociology at York University. She is also a board member of the Canadian Health Coalition and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, she is Principal Investigator on "Reimagining Long-term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices" and on the CIHR funded "Healthy Aging in Residential Places."
	REBECCA GRAFF-MCRAE is a research manager at Parkland Institute. She completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies at Queen’s University Belfast (PhD Irish Politics, 2006). Her work, which interrogates the role of memory and commemoration in post-conflict transition, has evolved through a Faculty of Arts fellowship at Memorial University Newfoundland and a SSHRC post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of Alberta. She has previously worked with the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and Edmonton City Council. Rebecca will be moderating the event.