Trent University’s Dr. James Struthers will appear on Steve Paikin's The Agenda, on TVO this Thursday, September 15, at 8:00 p.m. He will participate in a roundtable discussion regarding the progress of the Ontario election in the province’s regions in the episode entitled “The Ontario Election: Regional Battlegrounds”. Professor Struthers will be speaking about the election from the perspective of the Central Ontario region. The show will be available to re-play as a podcast from the TVO website.
A professor with the Department of Canadian Studies, Prof. Stuthers’ research focuses on aging and long-term care policy in Ontario from the 1940s to the 1990s. He has previously published articles on the growth and regulation of private nursing homes and public homes for the aged in Ontario from 1945-1975, as well as on the history of home care for the elderly in the province during this same time period. Professor Struthers is currently researching the recent history of long-term residential care in Ontario. He is also a co-investigator and co-theme leader in the SSHRC MCRI project, "Re-imagining Long-term residential care: an international study of promising practices.
Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2011.