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Fight the forces that make aging worse for some people than for others. Join host Sally Chivers as we learn about aging through insightful stories, and celebrate along the way.
Academic Articles (selected)
What’s New Is Old: Building Pathways Between the Humanities & Gerontology
The Gerontologist, Volume 63, Issue 10, December 2023, Pages 1571–1574
Age-Friendly: The Pink Ribbon of Anti-Ageism
Forum on Contested Language and Later Life. Age Culture Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 6, Sept. 2022.
“With Friends Like These”: Unpacking Panicked Metaphors for Population Ageing
Societies 11(3), 69
Deception and Design: The Rise of the Dementia Village, 2009-2019
with Annmarie Adams. e-flux September 2021
'Your own guilty story’: Rethinking Care Relations through David Chariandy’s Soucouyant.
Canadian Literature. 239 (2019): 108-124. DOI 10.14288/cl.v0i239.191363
Comment from the Field: Not an Activist? Ableism Meets Ageism in the Canadian Media.
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 12.1 (2018): 107-109. DOI 10.3828/jlcds.2018.7
There’s No Place Like Home: Designing for Long-Term Residential Care in Canada.
with Annmarie Adams. Journal of Canadian Studies 50.2 (2017): 273-298. DOI 10.3138/jcs.50.2.273
The Show Must Go On: Aging, Care, and Musical Performance in Quartet.
Modern Drama. 59.2 (2016): 213-230. DOI 10.3138/md.59.2.5
‘Blind people don't run’: Escaping the ‘Nursing Home Specter’ in Children of Nature and Cloudburst.
Journal of Aging Studies. 34(2015): 134-141. DOI 10.1016/j.jaging.2015.06.001
Reimagining Care: Images of Aging and Creativity in House Calls and A Year at Sherbrooke.
International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. 7.2 (2012): 53-71. DOI 10.3384/ijal.1652-8670.1272a3
Ordinary People: Reading the TransCanadian Terry Fox.
Canadian Literature. 202 (2009): 80-94.
Straining the Media: CBC’s ‘Voices of the Vulnerable’
Tessera. 27 (1999): 113-119.
Book Chapters (selected)
Home Care, Cinema, and the Relational Turn in Aging Studies
The Bloomsbury Companion to Ageing in Literature and Film
Edited by Sarah Falcus, Heike Hartung, and Raquel Medina. Bloomsbury Press, 2023. 213-224.
In Conversation with Sally Chivers: Reimagining Long-Term Residential Care
Critical Humanities and Ageing: Forging Interdisciplinary Dialgoues
Edited by Marlene Goldman, Kate De Medeiros, and Thomas Cole. Routledge Press, 2022. 141-160.
Old Friends: Reimagining Care Relations through Helen Garner’s The Spare Room
Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, and Care.
Edited by Katsura Sako and Sarah Falcus. Routledge Press, 2022. 163-176.
Cripping Care Advice: Austerity, Advice Literature, and the Troubled Link between Disability and Old Age
The Aging–Disability Nexus
Edited by Katie Aubrecht, Christine Kelly, and Carla Rice. UBC Press, 2020. 51-64.
What’s Exotic about the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel? Cinema, Everyday Life, and the Materialization of Ageing
Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments
Edited by Stephen Katz. Bristol: Policy Press, 2018. 83-98. Invited.
Barrier by Barrier: The Canadian Disability Movement and the Fight for Equal Rights
Group Politics and Social Movements in Canada
Calgary: Broadview Press, 2007. 307-328. Invited.
Telling Stories: Literary Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Team Research
Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid, Site-Switching Ethnography. Written with Derek Newman-Stille
Edited by Pat Armstrong and Ruth Lowndes. New York, Oxford UP, 2018. 143-155.
‘No place for sissies’: Gender, Age, and Disability in Hollywood
The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender
Edited by Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, E. Ann Kaplan, and Patrice Petro. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2017. 68-76.
Survival of the Fittest: CanLit and Disability
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature
Edited by Cynthia Sugars, Oxford University Press, 2016. 877-891.
Empty Husks: Age, Disability, Death, Care & Amour
Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television: The Pulse of Our Times
Edited by Claudia Wassman. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015. 72-88.
Seeing the Apricot: A Disability Perspective on Alzheimer’s in Lee Chang Dong’s Poetry
Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television
Edited by Marja Mogk. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, 2013. 65-74.
Care, Culture, and Creativity: A Disability Perspective on Long-Term Care
Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research and Practices
Edited by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2013. 47-58.
Public Articles (selected)
Instead of Jumping the COVID-19 Queue, Try Acting Your Age
The Conversation. Canadian Edition. April 27, 2021.
Death-friendly Communities Ease Fear of Aging and Dying
The Conversation. Canadian Edition. March 29, 2021.
How We Rely on Older Adults, Especially during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
The Conversation. Canadian Edition. July 30, 2020.
Aging Together and Apart: From the Pivot to the Pirouette.
Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal. July 29, 2020.
Make Mine a Double: Alcohol Consumption
Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care
Edited by Tamara Daly and Pat Armstrong. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2017. 55-58
Locks and Doors Matter
Physical Environments for Long-Term Care: Ideas Worth Sharing.
Edited by Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2016. 71-80. (I participated in research, data analysis, and writing).
United Kingdom: Big City
Promising Practices in Long-Term Care: Ideas Worth Sharing
Edited by Donna Baines and Pat Armstrong. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2015. 63-65.