All Stories

  1. The influence of autonomy on personal support workers’ job satisfaction, capacity to care, and intention to stay

    Article • Home Health Care Services Quarterly, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Rachel Barken

  2. Home Support Workers and Older Men

    Article • Men and Masculinities, October 2018, SAGE Publications

    Rachel Barken

  3. Utilization of Formal and Informal Home Care: How Do Older Canadians’ Experiences Vary by Care Arrangements?

    Article • Journal of Applied Gerontology, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Rachel Barken

  4. ‘Independence’ among older people receiving support at home: the meaning of daily care practices

    Article • Ageing and Society, October 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Rachel Barken

  5. Supporting Family Involvement in Long-Term Residential Care: Promising Practices for Relational Care

    Article • Qualitative Health Research, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Rachel Barken

  6. Skills of Workers in Long-Term Residential Care: Exploring Complexities, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Article • Ageing International, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rachel Barken

  7. Family Matters: The Work and Skills of Family/Friend Carers in Long-Term Residential Care

    Article • Journal of Canadian Studies, May 2017, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Rachel Barken

  8. Reconciling Tensions: Needing Formal and Family/Friend Care but Feeling like a Burden

    Article • Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Rachel Barken

  9. Homelessness and aging: The contradictory ordering of ‘house’ and ‘home’

    Article • Journal of Aging Studies, December 2016, Elsevier

    Rachel Barken

  10. ‘Growing Old’ in Shelters and ‘On the Street’: Experiences of Older Homeless People

    Article • Journal of Gerontological Social Work, August 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Rachel Barken

  11. A Literature Review on Homelessness and Aging

    Article • Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Amanda Grenier, Rachel Barken

  12. Home Care Workers’ Skills in the Context of Task Shifting: Complexities in Care Work

    Article • Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, August 2015, Wiley

    Rachel Barken

  13. Task shifting in the provision of home and social care in Ontario, Canada: implications for quality of care

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, December 2014, Wiley

    Rachel Barken

  14. Caregivers’ Interpretations of Time and Biography

    Article • Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, February 2014, SAGE Publications

    Rachel Barken

  15. Home Care Workers

    Article • February 2014, Wiley

    Rachel Barken

  16. A Place to Call Home: Intellectual Disabilities and Residential Services in Nova Scotia

    Article • Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, January 2013, University of Waterloo

    Rachel Barken