Context
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In the current post-pandemic, demographic, and socio-sanitary context, the lack of studies on local places of long-term care and the realities of residents, family caregivers and healthcare professionals represents a significant obstacle to the management of Quebec's long-term care facilities (MDAs and CHSLDs), which are often socially and culturally marginalized.
It is, therefore, crucial to examine the lived experiences of residents, their relatives, and professional caregivers, but also the practices and dynamics shaped by the complex and plural dimensions of long-term and end-of-life care in CHSLD and MDA environments. This includes analyzing how these are influenced by everyday organizational, relational and ethical challenges and transformations.
Methods
In the framework of this project, I am conducting a 15-month research fieldwork in two care units, using an ethnographic approach combining observations and interviews.
Drawing on the issues considered most important by collaborators in the field, I am examining the ways in which eldercare is provided and negotiated, how various actors express their perceptions and construct meaning, and how the moralities and ethics of caregiving are enacted between living and dying. My anthropological approach is oriented towards decolonizing research practices with community stakeholders in a non-extractive and collaborative way.
Aim
The objective is to make visible the sociocultural and ethical representations underlying care and end-of-life experiences while amplifying the voices of these essential actors who are too often marginalized or silenced.
This research aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of care for older adults in Quebec—its organizational, relational and ethical dimensions—to better envision its actualization. Ultimately, the project's social relevance lies in creating a space for reflection and dialogue, putting forward the humanity and future of long-term and palliative care, together with the support of older adults, care professionals and family caregivers.
Fields of study
Medical Anthropology
Sociocultural Anthropology
Anthropology of Ethics and Moralities
Bioethics
Critical gerontology
Gerontological and Health Geography
Methods
Ethnography
Qualitative methods
Semi-structured and unstructured interviews
Participant observation
Shadowing
Research interests
Aging
Ethics of care
Long-term care
Palliative and end-of-life care
Medical assistance in dying
Care dynamics and practices
Places of care
Medical pluralism
Inequalities and discrimination
Institutions and organizational structures of care
Pandemics and health crises
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