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60 CANADIAN WOMAN STUDIES/LES CAHIERS DE LA FEMMESigma-3 Policy Research Inc. Nursing and Personal Care: Funding Increase Survey. Toronto: Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2003. Print.Smith, Monique. A Commitment to Care: A Plan for Long-Term Care in Ontario Toronto: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, 2004. Print. Standing, Hilary. “Gender Equity and Health Indicators in the Context of Health Reform.” International Journal of Public Health 52 (2007): 55-56. Print. Statistics Canada. “A Portrait of Seniors.” The Daily 27 February 2007. Web. Struthers, James. “Reluctant Partners: State Regulation of Private Nursing Homes in Ontario, 1941–1972.” The Welfare State in Canada: Past, Present, and Future. Ed. Raymond B. Blake, Penny E. Bryden, and J. Frank Strain. Concord: Irwin Publishing, 1997. 171–192. Print.  van Doorslaer, E., C. Masseria, and the oecd Equity Research Group Members. Income Related Inequality in the Use of Medical Care in 21 oecd Countries. Paris: oecd, 2004. Web. Williams, Fiona. Claiming and Framing in the Making of Care Polices: the Recognition and the Redistribution of Care. Geneva: United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, 2009. Print. Witmer, Elizabeth. “Long Term Care.” Legislative Assembly of Ontario. 23 November 2006. Transcript. Web.Yassi A., M. Cohen, Y. Cvitkovich, I. H. Park, P. A. Ratner, A. S. Ostry, J. Village, and N. Polla. “Factors Associated with Staff Injuries in Intermediate Care Facilities in British Columbia” Nursing Research 53.2 (2004): 87–98. Print. MARGO SWISSWomen TellWomen tell of their babies that died:ones born black as your boot, grey or blueones that lived just a day or twoones that slept with death in their cribsones that were spindly and could never suckones that were taken before they wore clothes.Women tell of the nurseries they made:linens and lamps, assorted notions of joy,the patient passing of nine months goneas on a long trip, heavy with love for the unexpectedto be finally rejected by somebody specialwho never arrived, a door slammed in the face,the place they came to a vacant space,a house abandoned and all swept cleanwith only a simple sign on the door,no body lives here any more.Margo Swiss’s poetry appears earlier in this volume.ILONA MARTONFIFather’s Wake“Tomorrow is the funeral,” she said.She talked and talked, and consoled me with her voice.Mother talked about her duties to him: how she had filledthe vials for his injections. Now she didn’t have to do itanymore. She prepared his Sunday suit, his shirt, his tie,and shoes, to take to the Verhoeve Funeral Home.“Death roamed the house for weeks,” my father had said.Ilona Martonfi’s poetry appears earlier in this volume.

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