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Joan Harbison
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Latest papers
Understanding "elder abuse and neglect": a critique of assumptions underpinning responses to the mistreatment and neglect of older people.
Journal of elder abuse & neglect · 2012 · first author
Latest funding
- $25,000
Development of a program of research on prevention of abuse & neglect among older immigrant women
CIHR · 2010 · Co-investigator
- $157,778
Providing assistance to older people experiencing mistreatment and neglect: exploring the links between legislation, policy, and local practices in the Maritime provinces
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
- $70,000
Ethical tensions in the caring professions
SSHRC · 2001 · Co-investigator
1 publications.
Understanding "elder abuse and neglect": a critique of assumptions underpinning responses to the mistreatment and neglect of older people.
Harbison J, Coughlan S, Beaulieu M, Karabanow J, Vanderplaat M, Wildeman S, Wexler E
Development of a program of research on prevention of abuse & neglect among older immigrant women
Principal investigators: Guruge, Sepali; Matsuoka, Atsuko
Keywords: Elder Abuse; Health Promotion; Older Immigrant Women; Prevention Of Abuse And Neglect; Violence Against Women
Providing assistance to older people experiencing mistreatment and neglect: exploring the links between legislation, policy, and local practices in the Maritime provinces
Principal investigators: Harbison, Joan R.
Keywords: mistreatment and neglect of older people; professional ethics and values; health and social service delivery; formal and informal assistance; adult protection legislation; local rural support networks
Ethical tensions in the caring professions
Principal investigators: Beagan, Brenda
Keywords: professional ethics; social inequality; professional education; race; class; gender; sexuality; medicine; nursing; social work; occupational therapy; adult education; pastoral care
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Jeff Karabanow and Sheila Wildeman: 3 shared papers
- Jeff Karabanow and Marie Beaulieu: 2 shared papers
- Sheila Wildeman and Marie Beaulieu: 2 shared papers
- Jeff Karabanow and Joan Harbison: 1 shared paper
- Sheila Wildeman and Joan Harbison: 1 shared paper
- Marie Beaulieu and Joan Harbison: 1 shared paper
- School of Social Work
- École de travail social
- Marine and Environmental Law Institute
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