The Council on Aging is presenting Carleton Professor Hugh Armstrong with the Margaret Griffiths Award given annually to a senior volunteer who has contributed substantially to the betterment of the quality of life of seniors in Ottawa.
The Council noted that Dr. Armstrong’s outstanding commitment to the betterment of health care and policy for seniors has deeply influenced not only his students, but also many decision-makers and practitioners in the field of aging.
A professor in the School of Social Work and the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton, Dr. Armstrong has an impressive record of research, education, advocacy and community involvement in the fields of health care, health policy and health management.
He and Pat Armstrong (spouse), an adjunct professor in Canadian Studies at Carleton, have written widely on women and work and on health care. Among their recent books are Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services, About Canada: Health Care, and, with other authors, They Deserve Better: The Long-Term Care Experience in Canada and Scandinavia.
Hugh Armstrong is involved in a seven-year research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, entitled Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care: An International Study of Promising Practices. The project involves 25 university-based researchers from six countries as well as five health-sector unions, two employer associations and the Council on Aging. The project is led by Pat Armstrong.
Dr. Armstrong was on the committee that organized the founding conference of the Ottawa Health Coalition in 1996. He served as an elected member of the board of directors for the Ottawa Community Care Access Centre from 1999 until 2002, chairing its procurement and quality improvement committee throughout that period and serving as vice-chair from 2001 to 2002. He has been on the board of directors of the Council on Aging since 2004, where he was a vice-president, chaired the health issues committee and represented the board on the community advisory committee of the Ottawa Hospital.
Armstrong’s award is named for Margaret Griffiths, who taught for 25 years at the McGill School of Social Work. In a second career after her retirement, she became actively involved in many organizations concerned with the health and welfare of seniors in Ottawa, including the Good Companions Seniors Centre, the Glebe Centre, the District Health Council and the Council on Aging of Ottawa.
Friday, June 18, 2010 in Info Brief
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