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Theme: Community Care
Project: 1-3: Ethno-Racial Differences in
the Balance of Care.
Project Lead:
Janet M. Lum
Synopsis of Project:
Within the broad objectives of Theme 1, Project 1-3 examines the impact of race and ethnicity on the balance of care (BoC). The main objectives of this research project are to: a) analyze different community care options for individuals from established or emergent communities which have varying capacities to support their members; b) examine the degree to which intensive case management compensates for emergent communities with weak social capital by mediating diversity issues in providing community care; and c) collaborate with other Projects in building an evidence base around the costs and outcomes of community support services as substitutes for more expensive publicly-insured hospital and doctor services with particular attention to complex issues around culture and language. We hypothesize that the degree to which ethno-racial communities are established or emergent will affect the home and community BoC costs and outcomes within an integrated continuum of health and social care.
Research Team:
Janet Lum
Thomas Kais-Prial
William Rassenti
Jennifer Sladek
Pamela Tiller
Jillian Watkins
Alvin Ying
Partners and Collaborators:
African Community Services Peel
AIDS Action Now/ACT
Carefirst Seniors
Centre d'acceuil Héritage
City of Mississauga Parks & Recreation
Community Care East York
Copernicus
Dixon Hall
East Mississauga Community Housing Corporation
Hellenic Homes for the Aged
Holland Christian Homes Inc.
Hospice of Peel
India Rainbow CS of Peel
LOFT
Mid-Toronto
Parkdale Golden Age Foundation
Peel Peace Campaign
Peel Senior Link
Region of Peel Housing Dept.
Sherbourne Health
SPRINT
Square One Older Adult Centre
St. Joseph's Health Centre
Storefront Humber
Suomi-Koti Toronto
The 519
The Four Villages CHC
Toronto Central CHC
Toronto Western Hospital
United Way Peel
Woodgreen
Current project status:
As of January 2008:
- Completed LHIN IHSP diversity issues scan.
- Mapped established and emergent minority populations, as well as seniors’ concentrations in the Toronto Central LHIN on the basis of Census 2001 data.
- Identified community service providers and allied health institutions with diversity-oriented focus within the boundaries of Toronto Central LHIN.
- Mapped the distribution of diversity-oriented service providers in Toronto Central LHIN.
- Completed focus groups.
- Completed focus group transcriptions.
- Completed NVIVO coding.
- NVIVO analysis completed.
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