We are grateful for the financial support provided to conduct this study by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) through its International Opportunities Fund programme. Additional financial resources were provided by the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Health Labour Policy held by Dr. Bourgeault at McMaster University; and by the Community Health Research Unit at the University of Ottawa.

We would like to thank all those who participated directly in the research, particularly the immigrant care workers, the older adults and the employer interviewees and survey respondents.

We would like to acknowledge the involvement of several other parties to this research other than those included as co-authors of the country report. Jennifer Millen contributed significantly to the background contextual section on the structure of health and social care in Canada. Husain Gulamhusein assisted in the advertisement and recruitments of participants for the online employer survey. Husain also prepared an additional background brief on the aging context in Canada. Rebecca Toombs also assisted with the recruitment of employers as well as the conduct of the employer interviews and online survey. Christine Davis and her research assistants were instrumental in the collection of data from workers, employers and care recipients in British Columbia. Conceptual support was also provided by Byron Spencer and through the SSHRC funded SEDAP MCRI – Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population.

More broadly, we would like to acknowledge the support of the broader international research team which includes Susan Martin and B. Lindsay Lowell at the Institute for Studies on International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.; Sarah Spencer, Alessio Cangiano and Isabel Shutes at the Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS) at Oxford University, U.K., and Eamon O’Shea and Kieran Walsh at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Funding for the work of the international team was provided by The Atlantic Philanthropies (UK, Ireland and international collaboration); The Nuffield Foundation (UK project and international collaboration); John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (US, for the research on source countries); Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (US, for the research on temporary worker programs); German Marshall Fund (US, for transatlantic preparatory meeting); and the Rockefeller Foundation (US, for the use of the Bellagio conference centre).

We would also like to acknowledge the input from our International Advisory Board: Nick Johnson, CEO, Social Care Association, UK; Gail Adams, Head of Nursing, UNISON, UK; Jo Moriarty, Research Fellow, Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London, UK; Colin Angel, Head of Policy and Communication, UK Home Care Association; Annie Stevenson, Head of Older People’s Services, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), UK; Steve Lamb, Regional Operations Director, UK Border Agency; Brendan Sinnott, Head of Unit, Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, European Commission; Frank Laczko, Chief of the Research and Publications Division, International Organisation for Migration; Judith A. Salerno, Deputy Director, National Institute of Ageing, US; Michael Clemens, Research Fellow, Center for Global Development, US; John Haaga, Social Research post, DIV Behavioral & Social Research, National institute on Aging; Siobhan O’Donoghue, Director, Migrant Rights Centre, Ireland; Margaret Denton, Professor, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, Canada; John McHale, Associate Professor of Economics, Queens University, Canada.