Sustainable Life: Community Care for an Aging Population

Pat Armstrong, Lenore Manderson, Sarah Lamb and Aalyia Sadruddin

Sustainable Life: Community Care for an Aging Population

Pat Armstrong, Lenore Manderson, Sarah Lamb and Aalyia Sadruddin

7:30pm

Wednesday, October 27

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Following the disturbing events that took place in long-term care homes across Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, new policies, strategies and considerations are essential for the future of elder care. Moderated by medical anthropologist Lenore Manderson, event panelists Pat Armstrong, Sarah Lamb and Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin will take part in this discussion on addressing inequities in the health of an aging population. Panelists will also share their diverse and intercontinental research into the anthropology of health and aging, how various cultures and diaspora traverse the aging process, the idea of “successful aging” as a contemporary obsession, and the economics of aging.

Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

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Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Panel Discussion

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Following the disturbing events that took place in long-term care homes across Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, new policies, strategies and considerations are essential for the future of elder care. Moderated by medical anthropologist Lenore Manderson, event panelists Pat Armstrong, Sarah Lamb and Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin will take part in this discussion on addressing inequities in the health of an aging population. Panelists will also share their diverse and intercontinental research into the anthropology of health and aging, how various cultures and diaspora traverse the aging process, the idea of “successful aging” as a contemporary obsession, and the economics of aging.

Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Panel Discussion

Featured Authors

Pat Armstrong
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.”

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Lenore Manderson
Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research focuses on inequality, the social context of infectious diseases and chronic conditions and increasingly, the environment in Australian, Asian and African settings. She has published extensively, including on disability and embodied change, Surface Tensions (2011) and on Covid, Viral Loads (with Nancy J.Burke and Ayo Wahlberg, 2021). She was awarded the Society of Medical Anthropology Career Achievement Award in 2016, and in January 2020, was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia.

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Sarah Lamb
Sarah Lamb is Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on aging, gender, families, ethical strivings and understandings of personhood in India and the United States. Her several books include White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India; and Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives. As an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Lamb is currently writing a book on her decades of ethnographic fieldwork in North America, India and China titled Successful Aging’s Global Moment: Visions and Dilemmas of Aging Well.

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Aalyia Sadruddin
Aalyia Sadruddin is an Assistant Professor of Cultural and Medical Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests focus on the critical study of health, demographic transitions and everyday practices of care in postconflict societies. Over the last decade, she has conducted ethnographic research on aging and late-care practices in Rwanda. Her academic writing has been published in Anthropology Now, Medical Anthropology and Social Science & Medicine.

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7:30pm

Wednesday, October 27

What to read

Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of Covid-19 by , Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession by , Wash, Wear, and Care by ,
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