Foisted upon the government? : state responsibilities, family obligations, and the care of the dependent aged in late nineteenth-century Ontario
While government officials in the 1890s claimed that forcing families to take responsibility for caring for the aged was in the interest of the elderly, Edgar-Andre Montigny reveals that government policy had more to do with saving money than a desire to serve the aged. He provides a harsh critique of Ontario government policies toward the elderly and their families at the end of the nineteenth century and highlights similarities between what happened in the 1890s and current policy reforms in the area of long-term care
Print Book, English, ©1997
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©1997
History
xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780773516168, 0773516166
39914128
1. Population Aging, Old Age Dependency, and Public Policy
2. Home and Family: A Demographic Profile of the Aged in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Brockville, 1851-1901
3. Dependency, Employment, and Need among Ontario's Aged: Perception and Reality
4. Families, Neighbours, and Communities: Local Support Systems for the Aged Poor in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
5. Government Policy towards the Dependent Aged in Ontario: Institutions and the Ideal Family
6. Institutions and the Impact of Public Policy on the Aged: The Elderly Patients of Rockwood Asylum, 1866-1906
7. Long-Term-Care Reform and Family Obligations in Ontario in the 1990s