Tom Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 75158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1455-1340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Assessing the impact of day programs on individuals living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers (Aida-DemCare)
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT06496945
But where's the body? Bodies, time, money, and the political economy of post-pandemic field research
Since the pandemic, field work has been transformed by shifts in the political economy affecting the material conditions underpinning research. In this research note, a research team considers their challenges and learning in completing field studies conducted in 2022, including intensified strains on time, money, researchers' bodies, and risks associated with illness and infection spread. We argue that a neoliberal 'research super-hero' norm ope…
Counter-narratives of active aging
Decent care work
Mind the gap
This article compares community services provided to older adults living in Bergen, Norway, and Toronto, Canada. We investigate the gaps that are left unattended in the respective jurisdictions and consequently maintained by the organizations. Our findings reveal the importance of community organizations in positively influencing the initial transition from independence to needing more supports. Our findings show differences between the jurisdict…
Low-barrier harm reduction and housing for older people in Vancouver’s opiate crisis
Drawing on recent case-study data, this article explores innovative practices around harm reduction and housing for older people who use drugs. Although right-wing groups call for further criminalisation of drug use, in light of extraordinarily high levels of deaths from opioid overdose in Vancouver, Canada, the provincial government has quietly permitted the development of safe supply, the testing of illegal drugs to avoid poisonings and the pro…
Filling the gap
Paramedics respond to acute medical and trauma emergencies in the community and transport patients to emergency departments (ED). In some cases, paramedics are not only attending calls for mental health and psychosocial care but are also connecting individuals with more appropriate services to address their needs. This study qualitatively explores to what extent there are promising practices to be learned from paramedic services that are connecti…
How do supervisor support and social care matter in long-term care? Correlates of turnover contemplation among long-term care facility workers
This study examined long-term care workers’ contemplation to leave their current employment situation. Direct care workers from three Canadian provinces were surveyed. Intention to leave was measured with a survey question asking participants whether they had seriously considered quitting their job recently. The results of the binary logistic regression indicated that both immediate supervisor support and social care tasks performed were statisti…
Borrowed Time and Solidarity
Exploring long-term residential care (Ontario, Canada), we argue that within the context of late neoliberalism, care time is political, contested, and multi-scalar. Multi-scalar time captures the way that time commodifies, disciplines, and delimits workers’ experience of care, and fractures human relations and solidarities. Drawing on data from nonprofit nursing homes in Canada, the article explores how the larger policy context of care work shap…
Feminist Political Economy and Flexible Team Interviewing
This chapter explores how we approached and conducted creative team interviewing during this multiyear ethnographic study of long-term care homes. We discuss interviewing from the theoretical standpoint of feminist political economy and feminist and interpretive interviewing. We outline our creative team interviewing method, as well as identify examples of what worked well and the relational, spatial, and temporal challenges we addressed. The cha…
Leisurely Dining
Mealtimes are among the busiest times in nursing homes. Austerity measures resulting in insufficient staff with heavy workloads limit the amount of time available to assist residents with eating. Within a feminist political economy framework, rapid team-based ethnography was used for an international study involving six countries exploring promising practices and also for a study conducted in one Canadian province in which interrelationships betw…
« Si ce n’est pas documenté, ça n’a pas été fait »
Historically, eldercare was usually furnished by unpaid women at home. Now that women are in paid work, much of this care is given by personal support workers (PSWs), usually female. With the massive introduction of management indicators in public organisations, a form of organisational silence appears: work is rendered invisible. To examine the mechanism involved, we have observed the work of 37 PSWs in six Ontario residences, and performed inte…
Domesticating dialysis
Key Messages The movement of dialysis care to homes has distinct and under‐explored implications in a rural Canadian context. The negative effects of this policy shift are felt most deeply by socially and economically vulnerable care providers. The domestication of dialysis reflects a broader trend towards a reduction of public health services and reliance upon individuals, rather than the state, to provide the conditions for good health
Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia
Prescriptive or Interpretive Regulation at the Frontlines of Care Work in the "Three Worlds" of Canada, Germany and Norway
This paper examines the tension between macro level regulation and the rule breaking and rule following that happens at the workplace level. Using a comparative study of Canada, Norway, and Germany, the paper documents how long-term residential care work is regulated and organized differently depending on country, regional, and organizational contexts. We ask where each jurisdiction's staffing regulations fall on a prescription-interpretation con…
Careworkers don't have a voice
Dancing The Two-Step in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Sector
This paper explores shifts in public and private delivery over time through an analysis of Ontario's approach to LTC funding and regulation in relation to other jurisdictions in Canada and abroad. The case of Ontario's long-term care (LTC) policy evolution - from the 1940s until early 2013 -- shows how moving from compliance to deterrence oriented regulation can support consolidation of commercial providers' ownership and increase the likelihood …
Resisting Regulatory Rigidities
In order to advance an argument addressing whether or not ethical and empowering care work is possible within the context of neoliberalism and managerialism, this article draws on international comparative, qualitative case-study data to ask whether processes and practices of radical care and emancipation already exist in nonprofit long-term care and social service work. If so, what do they look like, and what factors hinder or nurture social jus…
Financial planning for social care in later life
As policy makers in the United Kingdom and many other countries grapple with financing the needs of an ageing population, financial planning for social care in later life is high on political agendas. We draw on qualitative research with older couples in the United Kingdom about their intimate money practices to analyse the day-to-day meanings attributed to money, saving and consumption in the context of financial planning for later life and deat…
Coping with Age‐related Threats to Role Identity
As more couples live together into old age, difficult decisions have to be made about money matters, including the financing of late‐life care. This paper analyses in‐depth qualitative data from six older heterosexual couples, part of a wider study concerning money management in later life. Research when these cohorts were younger found that the organisation of money management within households was specialised and highly gendered, leading to sub…
Behind Closed Doors
As couples survive longer and live together into older age they face many issues of financial management, including daily money management on reduced and/or reducing income, and paying for care or the additional costs of disability. Yet household money management is highly gendered, especially for older age groups. This has implications for the ability of women, particularly, to manage financial decisions in the face of their partner's illness, o…
Structural violence in long-term, residential care for older people
Unheard voices, unmapped terrain
This article aims to contribute to comparative welfare state research by analysing the everyday work life of long-term care facility workers in Canada and Sweden. The study's empirical base was a survey of fixed and open-ended questions; this article presents results from a subset of respondents (Care Aides and Assistant Nurses) working in facilities in three Canadian provinces ( n =557) and across Sweden ( n =292). The workers' experiences were …
Family members' perspectives on potential discussions about life prolongation for their older relatives
Family members (or health-care confidants) of incapacitated patients are often consulted by doctors when making life-prolongation decisions. Little research has been conducted on confidants' views on life prolongation and advance care planning. This study investigated the health-care confidant's view on life prolongation and their involvement in being a potential decision-maker for their relatives in the event of incapacitation. Confidants (N = 1…
Understanding gender differences in older people's attitudes towards life-prolonging medical technologies
Structural violence in long-term, residential care for older people
Older Men, Social Integration and Organisational Activities
This article investigates the influence of partnership status on older men's involvement in social organisations, drawing on qualitative research. Men are found to be highly resistant to participation in organisations that cater primarily for the needs of older people. Older divorced and never-married men are more susceptible to social isolation and poor health than married men. This could be ameliorated by membership of such establishments, yet …
Careworkers don't have a voice
Behind Closed Doors
As couples survive longer and live together into older age they face many issues of financial management, including daily money management on reduced and/or reducing income, and paying for care or the additional costs of disability. Yet household money management is highly gendered, especially for older age groups. This has implications for the ability of women, particularly, to manage financial decisions in the face of their partner's illness, o…
Unheard voices, unmapped terrain
This article aims to contribute to comparative welfare state research by analysing the everyday work life of long-term care facility workers in Canada and Sweden. The study's empirical base was a survey of fixed and open-ended questions; this article presents results from a subset of respondents (Care Aides and Assistant Nurses) working in facilities in three Canadian provinces ( n =557) and across Sweden ( n =292). The workers' experiences were …
Financial planning for social care in later life
As policy makers in the United Kingdom and many other countries grapple with financing the needs of an ageing population, financial planning for social care in later life is high on political agendas. We draw on qualitative research with older couples in the United Kingdom about their intimate money practices to analyse the day-to-day meanings attributed to money, saving and consumption in the context of financial planning for later life and deat…
Dancing The Two-Step in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Sector
This paper explores shifts in public and private delivery over time through an analysis of Ontario's approach to LTC funding and regulation in relation to other jurisdictions in Canada and abroad. The case of Ontario's long-term care (LTC) policy evolution - from the 1940s until early 2013 -- shows how moving from compliance to deterrence oriented regulation can support consolidation of commercial providers' ownership and increase the likelihood …
Borrowed Time and Solidarity
Exploring long-term residential care (Ontario, Canada), we argue that within the context of late neoliberalism, care time is political, contested, and multi-scalar. Multi-scalar time captures the way that time commodifies, disciplines, and delimits workers’ experience of care, and fractures human relations and solidarities. Drawing on data from nonprofit nursing homes in Canada, the article explores how the larger policy context of care work shap…
Resisting Regulatory Rigidities
In order to advance an argument addressing whether or not ethical and empowering care work is possible within the context of neoliberalism and managerialism, this article draws on international comparative, qualitative case-study data to ask whether processes and practices of radical care and emancipation already exist in nonprofit long-term care and social service work. If so, what do they look like, and what factors hinder or nurture social jus…
Understanding gender differences in older people's attitudes towards life-prolonging medical technologies
Dilemmas in decision-making about resuscitation-a focus group study of older people
Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia
Prescriptive or Interpretive Regulation at the Frontlines of Care Work in the "Three Worlds" of Canada, Germany and Norway
This paper examines the tension between macro level regulation and the rule breaking and rule following that happens at the workplace level. Using a comparative study of Canada, Norway, and Germany, the paper documents how long-term residential care work is regulated and organized differently depending on country, regional, and organizational contexts. We ask where each jurisdiction's staffing regulations fall on a prescription-interpretation con…
Coping with Age‐related Threats to Role Identity
As more couples live together into old age, difficult decisions have to be made about money matters, including the financing of late‐life care. This paper analyses in‐depth qualitative data from six older heterosexual couples, part of a wider study concerning money management in later life. Research when these cohorts were younger found that the organisation of money management within households was specialised and highly gendered, leading to sub…
Counter-narratives of active aging
Low-barrier harm reduction and housing for older people in Vancouver’s opiate crisis
Drawing on recent case-study data, this article explores innovative practices around harm reduction and housing for older people who use drugs. Although right-wing groups call for further criminalisation of drug use, in light of extraordinarily high levels of deaths from opioid overdose in Vancouver, Canada, the provincial government has quietly permitted the development of safe supply, the testing of illegal drugs to avoid poisonings and the pro…
How do supervisor support and social care matter in long-term care? Correlates of turnover contemplation among long-term care facility workers
This study examined long-term care workers’ contemplation to leave their current employment situation. Direct care workers from three Canadian provinces were surveyed. Intention to leave was measured with a survey question asking participants whether they had seriously considered quitting their job recently. The results of the binary logistic regression indicated that both immediate supervisor support and social care tasks performed were statisti…
Leisurely Dining
Mealtimes are among the busiest times in nursing homes. Austerity measures resulting in insufficient staff with heavy workloads limit the amount of time available to assist residents with eating. Within a feminist political economy framework, rapid team-based ethnography was used for an international study involving six countries exploring promising practices and also for a study conducted in one Canadian province in which interrelationships betw…
Eskimo Artist--Kenojuak
This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset
La masculinité dans un monde féminisé
Au cours des dernières décennies du xx e siècle, les recherches sur le genre et le vieillissement se sont, dans une large mesure, concentrées sur l’expérience vécue des femmes âgées. Dans cet article, nous revisitons les notions de vieillissement et de genre, en nous centrant sur l’expérience différentielle des hommes au cours de leur vieillesse, c’est-à-dire en comparant leurs réseaux sociaux à ceux des femmes âgées. Nous étudions en particulier…
Older Men, Social Integration and Organisational Activities
This article investigates the influence of partnership status on older men's involvement in social organisations, drawing on qualitative research. Men are found to be highly resistant to participation in organisations that cater primarily for the needs of older people. Older divorced and never-married men are more susceptible to social isolation and poor health than married men. This could be ameliorated by membership of such establishments, yet …
Dilemmas in decision-making about resuscitation-a focus group study of older people
Out of Place
The paper discusses two reforms in Ontario's long-term care. The first is the commercialization of home care as a result of the implementation of a “managed competition” delivery model. The second is the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's privileging of “health care” over “social care” through changes to which types of home care and home support services receive public funding. It addresses the effects of these reforms on the state–non-profi…
Family members' perspectives on potential discussions about life prolongation for their older relatives
Family members (or health-care confidants) of incapacitated patients are often consulted by doctors when making life-prolongation decisions. Little research has been conducted on confidants' views on life prolongation and advance care planning. This study investigated the health-care confidant's view on life prolongation and their involvement in being a potential decision-maker for their relatives in the event of incapacitation. Confidants (N = 1…
Understanding gender differences in older people's attitudes towards life-prolonging medical technologies
Unheard voices, unmapped terrain
This article aims to contribute to comparative welfare state research by analysing the everyday work life of long-term care facility workers in Canada and Sweden. The study's empirical base was a survey of fixed and open-ended questions; this article presents results from a subset of respondents (Care Aides and Assistant Nurses) working in facilities in three Canadian provinces ( n =557) and across Sweden ( n =292). The workers' experiences were …
Behind Closed Doors
As couples survive longer and live together into older age they face many issues of financial management, including daily money management on reduced and/or reducing income, and paying for care or the additional costs of disability. Yet household money management is highly gendered, especially for older age groups. This has implications for the ability of women, particularly, to manage financial decisions in the face of their partner's illness, o…
Structural violence in long-term, residential care for older people
Coping with Age‐related Threats to Role Identity
As more couples live together into old age, difficult decisions have to be made about money matters, including the financing of late‐life care. This paper analyses in‐depth qualitative data from six older heterosexual couples, part of a wider study concerning money management in later life. Research when these cohorts were younger found that the organisation of money management within households was specialised and highly gendered, leading to sub…
Financial planning for social care in later life
As policy makers in the United Kingdom and many other countries grapple with financing the needs of an ageing population, financial planning for social care in later life is high on political agendas. We draw on qualitative research with older couples in the United Kingdom about their intimate money practices to analyse the day-to-day meanings attributed to money, saving and consumption in the context of financial planning for later life and deat…
Careworkers don't have a voice
Dancing The Two-Step in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Sector
This paper explores shifts in public and private delivery over time through an analysis of Ontario's approach to LTC funding and regulation in relation to other jurisdictions in Canada and abroad. The case of Ontario's long-term care (LTC) policy evolution - from the 1940s until early 2013 -- shows how moving from compliance to deterrence oriented regulation can support consolidation of commercial providers' ownership and increase the likelihood …
Resisting Regulatory Rigidities
In order to advance an argument addressing whether or not ethical and empowering care work is possible within the context of neoliberalism and managerialism, this article draws on international comparative, qualitative case-study data to ask whether processes and practices of radical care and emancipation already exist in nonprofit long-term care and social service work. If so, what do they look like, and what factors hinder or nurture social jus…
« Si ce n’est pas documenté, ça n’a pas été fait »
Historically, eldercare was usually furnished by unpaid women at home. Now that women are in paid work, much of this care is given by personal support workers (PSWs), usually female. With the massive introduction of management indicators in public organisations, a form of organisational silence appears: work is rendered invisible. To examine the mechanism involved, we have observed the work of 37 PSWs in six Ontario residences, and performed inte…
Domesticating dialysis
Key Messages The movement of dialysis care to homes has distinct and under‐explored implications in a rural Canadian context. The negative effects of this policy shift are felt most deeply by socially and economically vulnerable care providers. The domestication of dialysis reflects a broader trend towards a reduction of public health services and reliance upon individuals, rather than the state, to provide the conditions for good health
Scarcity discourses and their impacts on renal care policy, practices, and everyday experiences in rural British Columbia
Prescriptive or Interpretive Regulation at the Frontlines of Care Work in the "Three Worlds" of Canada, Germany and Norway
This paper examines the tension between macro level regulation and the rule breaking and rule following that happens at the workplace level. Using a comparative study of Canada, Norway, and Germany, the paper documents how long-term residential care work is regulated and organized differently depending on country, regional, and organizational contexts. We ask where each jurisdiction's staffing regulations fall on a prescription-interpretation con…
Feminist Political Economy and Flexible Team Interviewing
This chapter explores how we approached and conducted creative team interviewing during this multiyear ethnographic study of long-term care homes. We discuss interviewing from the theoretical standpoint of feminist political economy and feminist and interpretive interviewing. We outline our creative team interviewing method, as well as identify examples of what worked well and the relational, spatial, and temporal challenges we addressed. The cha…
Leisurely Dining
Mealtimes are among the busiest times in nursing homes. Austerity measures resulting in insufficient staff with heavy workloads limit the amount of time available to assist residents with eating. Within a feminist political economy framework, rapid team-based ethnography was used for an international study involving six countries exploring promising practices and also for a study conducted in one Canadian province in which interrelationships betw…
How do supervisor support and social care matter in long-term care? Correlates of turnover contemplation among long-term care facility workers
This study examined long-term care workers’ contemplation to leave their current employment situation. Direct care workers from three Canadian provinces were surveyed. Intention to leave was measured with a survey question asking participants whether they had seriously considered quitting their job recently. The results of the binary logistic regression indicated that both immediate supervisor support and social care tasks performed were statisti…
Borrowed Time and Solidarity
Exploring long-term residential care (Ontario, Canada), we argue that within the context of late neoliberalism, care time is political, contested, and multi-scalar. Multi-scalar time captures the way that time commodifies, disciplines, and delimits workers’ experience of care, and fractures human relations and solidarities. Drawing on data from nonprofit nursing homes in Canada, the article explores how the larger policy context of care work shap…
Filling the gap
Paramedics respond to acute medical and trauma emergencies in the community and transport patients to emergency departments (ED). In some cases, paramedics are not only attending calls for mental health and psychosocial care but are also connecting individuals with more appropriate services to address their needs. This study qualitatively explores to what extent there are promising practices to be learned from paramedic services that are connecti…
Counter-narratives of active aging
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Nursing (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (7 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (7 works)