Jeffrey Keefe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1153750 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeffrey Keefe |
| NOMBRES | Jeffrey |
| APELLIDO | Keefe |
| FIRMA | KEEFE J |
| AFILIACIONES | Mount Saint Vincent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3073-8535 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Measurement invariance and differential item functioning of a care staff proxy measure of nursing home resident dementia-specific quality of life (Demqol-CH)
Ageing in place with non-medical home support services need not translate into dependence
Older adults who age at home independently are often celebrated as having anticipated and planned for their care needs in the later stages of life, whereas those who receive assistance from home support services are often stigmatised as dependent and characterised as a ‘drain on the system’. However, this thematic analysis of interview data from 12 home care clients in two Canadian provinces offers evidence that counters the assumption that home …
Problematizing Dominant Assumptions about Unpaid Support through Exploring Case Study Profiles of Older Home Care Clients
Despite efforts to acknowledge diversity among unpaid caregivers, Canadian research, advocacy, practice, and policy tend to be based in and to reproduce dominant social and institutional expectations and assumptions about who provides unpaid support and why, and what this support looks like. The objective of this analysis is to generate unique insights into unpaid care by exploring the situations of older adult home care clients, who had particip…
What Teachers’ Unions Do for Teachers When Collective Bargaining is Prohibited
Our research examines the relationship between teachers’ unions, teacher compensation, employment conditions, and turnover in Southern US states that prohibit the collective bargaining of public school teachers. We assess union strength by meet-and-confer status and the teacher union density of districts and estimate union impact using propensity score matching. We find that teachers’ unions are positively associated with teacher compensation and…
Teachers’ Unions
This research investigates whether teachers’ unions influence student academic achievement in Southern states that prohibit collective bargaining. Our data are from the School and Staffing Survey and the Stanford Education Data Archive. We measure the strength of teachers’ unions by union membership rate and meet-and-confer status of a district and employ a multilevel mixed-effects model to control for unobservable common characteristics of distr…
Home care program flexibility as a relational phenomenon
The capacities of home care programs to respond to clients’ holistic, everyday needs and changing circumstances can shape trajectories of clients and family caregivers. This analysis examines how such flexibility emerges in relations between home care actors within the constraints of policies, regulations and funding contexts. A relational lens broadly informs the analysis of interview data from 46 participants in two Canadian regions. Twelve con…
First Voices in Long Term Care Research
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Disparities in Utilization of Psychiatry Services Among Home Care Clients
Publicly funded home care in Canada supports older adults in the community to delay institutional care, which results in complex care populations with multimorbidity that includes mental health problems. The purpose of this study is to examine prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses and other mental health symptoms among older clients in two publicly funded Home Care (HC) Programs and their psychiatry service utilization (psychiatrist visits) after b…
Dimensions of Housing Insecurity for Older Women Living with a Low Income
Limited attention in housing research is given to the experiences of insecure housing among older women living with a low income, who, evidence suggests, are especially at risk. This qualitative study found that for some older women living in Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, housing insecurity goes beyond the problem of unaffordability. Housing insecurity emerged as the cumulative effects of inter-related factors encompassing…
The assessment experience of spousal dementia care-givers
This article is based on a study that used a validated care-giver assessment instrument known as ‘The C.A.R.E. (Caregivers’ Aspirations, Realities, and Expectations) Tool’ to understand its usefulness in working with older adults caring for a spouse with cognitive impairment. It draws on data collected as part of a larger, quasi-experimental pre- and post-test study examining the impact of a care-giver assessment on older spousal care-givers of a…
Technical Dissonance
What makes a nursing home a home? Insights from family members and friends
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of homelikeness from the perspective of family members and friends of nursing home residents across different models of nursing homes. Design/methodology/approach This mixed-methods study examined survey data collected from 397 family members and friends of residents living in 23 nursing homes representing three models of care (traditional, new augmented, and full scope). Participants co…
Coastal climate change, vulnerability and age friendly communities
Nursing home resident quality of life
How Can Aging Communities Adapt to Coastal Climate Change? Planning for Both Social and Place Vulnerability
Coastal climate change in the form of rising sea levels and more frequent and extreme weather events can threaten community assets, residences, and infrastructure. This presents a particular concern for vulnerable residents—such as seniors aged 75 years and older. Our spatial study combines census area cohort population model projections, community asset mapping, and a municipal policy review with coastal sea rise scenarios to the year 2025–2026.…
Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada
Coastal climate change is challenging communities to adapt. More frequent and extreme weather events leading to coastal area flooding and other hazards can present a risk for residents and the infrastructure and services they rely on. This is particularly the case for vulnerable populations such as seniors. Nova Scotia is experiencing this confluence of factors; it has rural and remote coastal communities and the oldest population of any province…
Are Public Employees Overpaid
The research reported in this article shows that public employees, both state and local government employees, are not overpaid and may be slightly undercompensated. Comparisons with the private-sector employees that control for education, experience, hours of work, organizational size, gender, race, ethnicity, and disability indicate that the public-employment compensation (wages and benefits) penalty is relatively small. On average there is a 3.…
L’environnement familial des Canadiens âgés de 75 ans et plus à l’horizon 2030
À l’aide de résultats issus du modèle de microsimulation LifePaths, développé par Statistique Canada, nous estimons l’évolution de la situation matrimoniale et de la proportion d’individus sans enfant survivant des futures personnes âgées selon l’âge et le sexe pour le Canada en 2001 et 2031. Ces projections permettent de montrer comment l’évolution de la structure par âge, des situations matrimoniales et de la proportion de personnes sans enfant…
Not another form!’
This article addresses some of the issues that need to be considered in implementing carer assessment in health and social service agencies. It is based on findings from three studies involving the use of the CARE (Caregivers' Aspirations Realities and Expectations) Assessment Tool in Canada, a comprehensive psychosocial instrument. The first study, carried out between 1999 and 2001, was aimed at developing the CARE Tool, and had as one of its ob…
Developing New Strategies to Support Future Caregivers of Older Canadians with Disabilities
This paper projects annual growth rates between 2001 and 2031 in the need for informal and formal support among elderly Canadians with disabilities. The paper also discusses the policy implications of the increasing demand for informal caregivers. Using Statistics Canada's LifePaths microsimulation model, these projections incorporate disability rates and the potential availability of family caregivers. The authors conclude that continued focus o…
Care management and care provision for older relatives amongst employed informal care-givers
This paper examines care management, or ‘managerial care’, a type of informal care for older adults that has been relatively neglected by researchers. While previous research has acknowledged that care-giving may involve tasks other than direct ‘hands-on’ care, the conceptualisation of managerial care has often been vague and inconsistent. This study is the first explicitly to investigate managerial care amongst a large sample of carers. In our c…
Impacts on practitioners of using research-based carer assessment tools
Researchers and practitioners in several Western countries have recently developed tools for assessing the situation of the carers of adults who are ill, elderly or have disabilities. The present article describes the impact of three such assessment tools, from Canada, the UK and Sweden, on the professional practice of assessors. All tools were tested in agency-based studies. Focus groups, workshops and interviews with assessors were employed to …
Employee Voice, Human Resource Practices, and Quit Rates
The authors draw on strategic human resource and industrial relations theories to identify the sets of employee voice mechanisms and human resource practices that are likely to predict firm-level quit rates, then empirically evaluate the predictive power of these variables using data from a 1998 establishment-level survey in the telecommunications industry. With respect to alternative voice mechanisms, they find that union representation predicts…
Finding and Using Rural Aging Data
This article reports on a workshop in which participants identified sources of data on rural aging. Such sources are typically part of larger data collection efforts or special aging studies with large rural components. Finding and using data on rural aging are not only two different processes but they also face somewhat different obstacles and the solutions are likewise different. The workshop addressed both of these issues. Participants shared …
Available But Not Accessible
This article investigates the extent to which existing workplaces assist women to balance employment and elder care responsibilities. Two sources of data are used in this article. Interview data of 246 women who are caregivers to elderly kin and who work in 37 workplaces in Nova Scotia, Canada are analyzed to obtain the employee's perception of elder care policy. In addition, content analysis of the 80 policy documents in these workplaces is cond…
Employee Voice, Human Resource Practices, and Quit Rates
The authors draw on strategic human resource and industrial relations theories to identify the sets of employee voice mechanisms and human resource practices that are likely to predict firm-level quit rates, then empirically evaluate the predictive power of these variables using data from a 1998 establishment-level survey in the telecommunications industry. With respect to alternative voice mechanisms, they find that union representation predicts…
Impacts on practitioners of using research-based carer assessment tools
Researchers and practitioners in several Western countries have recently developed tools for assessing the situation of the carers of adults who are ill, elderly or have disabilities. The present article describes the impact of three such assessment tools, from Canada, the UK and Sweden, on the professional practice of assessors. All tools were tested in agency-based studies. Focus groups, workshops and interviews with assessors were employed to …
Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare
Norah C. Keating, Janet E. Fast, Ingrid A. Connidis, Margaret Penning, Janice Keefe, Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 23, Special Joint Issue: Aging / Vieillissement (Spring, 1997), pp. 22-41
Not another form!’
This article addresses some of the issues that need to be considered in implementing carer assessment in health and social service agencies. It is based on findings from three studies involving the use of the CARE (Caregivers' Aspirations Realities and Expectations) Assessment Tool in Canada, a comprehensive psychosocial instrument. The first study, carried out between 1999 and 2001, was aimed at developing the CARE Tool, and had as one of its ob…
Care management and care provision for older relatives amongst employed informal care-givers
This paper examines care management, or ‘managerial care’, a type of informal care for older adults that has been relatively neglected by researchers. While previous research has acknowledged that care-giving may involve tasks other than direct ‘hands-on’ care, the conceptualisation of managerial care has often been vague and inconsistent. This study is the first explicitly to investigate managerial care amongst a large sample of carers. In our c…
How Can Aging Communities Adapt to Coastal Climate Change? Planning for Both Social and Place Vulnerability
Coastal climate change in the form of rising sea levels and more frequent and extreme weather events can threaten community assets, residences, and infrastructure. This presents a particular concern for vulnerable residents—such as seniors aged 75 years and older. Our spatial study combines census area cohort population model projections, community asset mapping, and a municipal policy review with coastal sea rise scenarios to the year 2025–2026.…
Developing New Strategies to Support Future Caregivers of Older Canadians with Disabilities
This paper projects annual growth rates between 2001 and 2031 in the need for informal and formal support among elderly Canadians with disabilities. The paper also discusses the policy implications of the increasing demand for informal caregivers. Using Statistics Canada's LifePaths microsimulation model, these projections incorporate disability rates and the potential availability of family caregivers. The authors conclude that continued focus o…
Are Public Employees Overpaid
The research reported in this article shows that public employees, both state and local government employees, are not overpaid and may be slightly undercompensated. Comparisons with the private-sector employees that control for education, experience, hours of work, organizational size, gender, race, ethnicity, and disability indicate that the public-employment compensation (wages and benefits) penalty is relatively small. On average there is a 3.…
Dimensions of Housing Insecurity for Older Women Living with a Low Income
Limited attention in housing research is given to the experiences of insecure housing among older women living with a low income, who, evidence suggests, are especially at risk. This qualitative study found that for some older women living in Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, housing insecurity goes beyond the problem of unaffordability. Housing insecurity emerged as the cumulative effects of inter-related factors encompassing…
What Teachers’ Unions Do for Teachers When Collective Bargaining is Prohibited
Our research examines the relationship between teachers’ unions, teacher compensation, employment conditions, and turnover in Southern US states that prohibit the collective bargaining of public school teachers. We assess union strength by meet-and-confer status and the teacher union density of districts and estimate union impact using propensity score matching. We find that teachers’ unions are positively associated with teacher compensation and…
Coastal climate change, vulnerability and age friendly communities
Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada
Coastal climate change is challenging communities to adapt. More frequent and extreme weather events leading to coastal area flooding and other hazards can present a risk for residents and the infrastructure and services they rely on. This is particularly the case for vulnerable populations such as seniors. Nova Scotia is experiencing this confluence of factors; it has rural and remote coastal communities and the oldest population of any province…
The Contribution of Long Term Economic Costs to Predicting Strain Among Employed Women Caregivers
Using a feminist perspective as a guiding framework, this paper investigates the relative contributions of employment, caregiving, and economic factors in predicting levels of strain for employed women caregivers. Hierarchical regression analyses indicate that, in addition to variables describing the caregiving situation, the consequences of economic variables significantly contribute to caregiver strain. The effects of these long term economic c…
Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare
Norah C. Keating, Janet E. Fast, Ingrid A. Connidis, Margaret Penning, Janice Keefe, Bridging Policy and Research in Eldercare, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 23, Special Joint Issue: Aging / Vieillissement (Spring, 1997), pp. 22-41
Available But Not Accessible
This article investigates the extent to which existing workplaces assist women to balance employment and elder care responsibilities. Two sources of data are used in this article. Interview data of 246 women who are caregivers to elderly kin and who work in 37 workplaces in Nova Scotia, Canada are analyzed to obtain the employee's perception of elder care policy. In addition, content analysis of the 80 policy documents in these workplaces is cond…
Finding and Using Rural Aging Data
This article reports on a workshop in which participants identified sources of data on rural aging. Such sources are typically part of larger data collection efforts or special aging studies with large rural components. Finding and using data on rural aging are not only two different processes but they also face somewhat different obstacles and the solutions are likewise different. The workshop addressed both of these issues. Participants shared …
Employee Voice, Human Resource Practices, and Quit Rates
The authors draw on strategic human resource and industrial relations theories to identify the sets of employee voice mechanisms and human resource practices that are likely to predict firm-level quit rates, then empirically evaluate the predictive power of these variables using data from a 1998 establishment-level survey in the telecommunications industry. With respect to alternative voice mechanisms, they find that union representation predicts…
Impacts on practitioners of using research-based carer assessment tools
Researchers and practitioners in several Western countries have recently developed tools for assessing the situation of the carers of adults who are ill, elderly or have disabilities. The present article describes the impact of three such assessment tools, from Canada, the UK and Sweden, on the professional practice of assessors. All tools were tested in agency-based studies. Focus groups, workshops and interviews with assessors were employed to …
Not another form!’
This article addresses some of the issues that need to be considered in implementing carer assessment in health and social service agencies. It is based on findings from three studies involving the use of the CARE (Caregivers' Aspirations Realities and Expectations) Assessment Tool in Canada, a comprehensive psychosocial instrument. The first study, carried out between 1999 and 2001, was aimed at developing the CARE Tool, and had as one of its ob…
Developing New Strategies to Support Future Caregivers of Older Canadians with Disabilities
This paper projects annual growth rates between 2001 and 2031 in the need for informal and formal support among elderly Canadians with disabilities. The paper also discusses the policy implications of the increasing demand for informal caregivers. Using Statistics Canada's LifePaths microsimulation model, these projections incorporate disability rates and the potential availability of family caregivers. The authors conclude that continued focus o…
Care management and care provision for older relatives amongst employed informal care-givers
This paper examines care management, or ‘managerial care’, a type of informal care for older adults that has been relatively neglected by researchers. While previous research has acknowledged that care-giving may involve tasks other than direct ‘hands-on’ care, the conceptualisation of managerial care has often been vague and inconsistent. This study is the first explicitly to investigate managerial care amongst a large sample of carers. In our c…
L’environnement familial des Canadiens âgés de 75 ans et plus à l’horizon 2030
À l’aide de résultats issus du modèle de microsimulation LifePaths, développé par Statistique Canada, nous estimons l’évolution de la situation matrimoniale et de la proportion d’individus sans enfant survivant des futures personnes âgées selon l’âge et le sexe pour le Canada en 2001 et 2031. Ces projections permettent de montrer comment l’évolution de la structure par âge, des situations matrimoniales et de la proportion de personnes sans enfant…
Are Public Employees Overpaid
The research reported in this article shows that public employees, both state and local government employees, are not overpaid and may be slightly undercompensated. Comparisons with the private-sector employees that control for education, experience, hours of work, organizational size, gender, race, ethnicity, and disability indicate that the public-employment compensation (wages and benefits) penalty is relatively small. On average there is a 3.…
Nursing home resident quality of life
How Can Aging Communities Adapt to Coastal Climate Change? Planning for Both Social and Place Vulnerability
Coastal climate change in the form of rising sea levels and more frequent and extreme weather events can threaten community assets, residences, and infrastructure. This presents a particular concern for vulnerable residents—such as seniors aged 75 years and older. Our spatial study combines census area cohort population model projections, community asset mapping, and a municipal policy review with coastal sea rise scenarios to the year 2025–2026.…
Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada
Coastal climate change is challenging communities to adapt. More frequent and extreme weather events leading to coastal area flooding and other hazards can present a risk for residents and the infrastructure and services they rely on. This is particularly the case for vulnerable populations such as seniors. Nova Scotia is experiencing this confluence of factors; it has rural and remote coastal communities and the oldest population of any province…
Coastal climate change, vulnerability and age friendly communities
What makes a nursing home a home? Insights from family members and friends
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of homelikeness from the perspective of family members and friends of nursing home residents across different models of nursing homes. Design/methodology/approach This mixed-methods study examined survey data collected from 397 family members and friends of residents living in 23 nursing homes representing three models of care (traditional, new augmented, and full scope). Participants co…
Technical Dissonance
The assessment experience of spousal dementia care-givers
This article is based on a study that used a validated care-giver assessment instrument known as ‘The C.A.R.E. (Caregivers’ Aspirations, Realities, and Expectations) Tool’ to understand its usefulness in working with older adults caring for a spouse with cognitive impairment. It draws on data collected as part of a larger, quasi-experimental pre- and post-test study examining the impact of a care-giver assessment on older spousal care-givers of a…
Dimensions of Housing Insecurity for Older Women Living with a Low Income
Limited attention in housing research is given to the experiences of insecure housing among older women living with a low income, who, evidence suggests, are especially at risk. This qualitative study found that for some older women living in Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada, housing insecurity goes beyond the problem of unaffordability. Housing insecurity emerged as the cumulative effects of inter-related factors encompassing…
Disparities in Utilization of Psychiatry Services Among Home Care Clients
Publicly funded home care in Canada supports older adults in the community to delay institutional care, which results in complex care populations with multimorbidity that includes mental health problems. The purpose of this study is to examine prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses and other mental health symptoms among older clients in two publicly funded Home Care (HC) Programs and their psychiatry service utilization (psychiatrist visits) after b…
Teachers’ Unions
This research investigates whether teachers’ unions influence student academic achievement in Southern states that prohibit collective bargaining. Our data are from the School and Staffing Survey and the Stanford Education Data Archive. We measure the strength of teachers’ unions by union membership rate and meet-and-confer status of a district and employ a multilevel mixed-effects model to control for unobservable common characteristics of distr…
Home care program flexibility as a relational phenomenon
The capacities of home care programs to respond to clients’ holistic, everyday needs and changing circumstances can shape trajectories of clients and family caregivers. This analysis examines how such flexibility emerges in relations between home care actors within the constraints of policies, regulations and funding contexts. A relational lens broadly informs the analysis of interview data from 46 participants in two Canadian regions. Twelve con…
First Voices in Long Term Care Research
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
What Teachers’ Unions Do for Teachers When Collective Bargaining is Prohibited
Our research examines the relationship between teachers’ unions, teacher compensation, employment conditions, and turnover in Southern US states that prohibit the collective bargaining of public school teachers. We assess union strength by meet-and-confer status and the teacher union density of districts and estimate union impact using propensity score matching. We find that teachers’ unions are positively associated with teacher compensation and…
Problematizing Dominant Assumptions about Unpaid Support through Exploring Case Study Profiles of Older Home Care Clients
Despite efforts to acknowledge diversity among unpaid caregivers, Canadian research, advocacy, practice, and policy tend to be based in and to reproduce dominant social and institutional expectations and assumptions about who provides unpaid support and why, and what this support looks like. The objective of this analysis is to generate unique insights into unpaid care by exploring the situations of older adult home care clients, who had particip…
Psychology (17 obras) · Medicine (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (12 obras) · Nursing (12 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Business (11 obras) · Economics (8 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 obras)