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Foisted upon the Government? : State Responsibilities, Family Obligations, and Care of the Dependent Aged in Late 19th-Century Ont
ISBN: 9780773566637
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: Social Science;

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-André Montigny reveals that government policy had more to 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.

Edgar-André Montigny is a post-doctoral fellow at Trent University.Edgar-André Montigny is a post-doctoral fellow at Trent University.