Precarious employment (PE), which encompasses the power relations between workers and
employers, is a well-established social determinant of health that has strong ramifications for …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing health disparities and
disproportionately affected vulnerable individuals and communities (eg, low-income …

Background Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) is an effective sampling strategy to recruit
hard-to-reach populations but the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of this …

When COVID-19 devastated older-adult organizations (long-term care homes and
retirement homes), most public attention was directed toward the older-adult residents rather …

Objective During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, personal support workers (PSWs)
were heralded as healthcare 'heroes' as many of them cared for high-risk, vulnerable older …

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted several issues among health care workers in
Canada's long-term care and seniors'(LTCS) homes, including labour shortages, staff …

Directly-Funded (DF) home care allows users to organize and purchase their own care
services and is expanding globally. Little is known about the career pathways of home care …

PURPOSE Precarious employment, defined by temporary contracts, unstable employment,
or job insecurity, is increasingly common and is associated with inconsistent access to …

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of people with intellectual disabilities in
many ways, impacting their health and wellbeing. Early in the pandemic, the research team …

During and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a predominantly female, significantly
racialised, activist health and social care union in British Columbia, Canada, built and won …