Bio
Pat Armstrong is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Focusing on women, work and the health and social services, she has published Wash, Wear and Care: Clothes and Laundry in Long-term Care. She has also edited four reports for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which can be downloaded for free: Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care; Negotiating Tensions in Long-Term Residential Care; Physical Environments for Long-term Care; and Promising Practices in Long Term Care. She been an expert witness before Tribunals and Commissions and led multiple research projects, including the 10-year “Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices” and “Covid-19, families and long-term residential care.”