People living in long-term care facilities have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 in Canada. A new report analyzing long-term care around the world assesses Canada’s pandemic performance.
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If Canadians want to know what the privatization of health care looks like, long-term care is a cautionary tale.
Nearly half the states have reduced liability for health care providers at a time when nursing home regulation is declining and families can’t visit loved ones for fear of spreading the coronavirus.
A research project may offer insight into how factors like laundry, food and art may be good places to start in addressing problems in long-term care homes.
Preventing people from dying alone in a pandemic takes ingenuity and money, but it’s the right thing to do.
Nursing homes and long term care in Canada are predominantly staffed by immigrant women, migrants and refugees — mostly women of colour.
The extraordinary scope and scale of the COVID-19 disaster at Canada’s long-term care centres would seem to warrant a public inquiry. But there are no guarantees there will actually be one.
Civil liberties violations look very different in pandemics. That’s why the Canadian Civil Liberties Association is looking into who has been detained and fined, and why, during the pandemic.
As the Wettlaufer inquiry wraps up for the summer, an international research team offers suggestions on how to make nursing homes as good as they can possibly be.
Top contributors
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Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada
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Clinical Professor of Gerontology and Co-Director LeadingAge LTSS Center; Recent Mel King Fellow at MIT Co-Lab, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor | Schlegel Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Aging | Canada Research Chair in Integrated Care for Seniors, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Groningen
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Schlegel Research Chair in Geriatric Medicine, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor, Family Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research director (CNRS), Toulouse School of Economics – École d'Économie de Toulouse
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Professeure titulaire en Sciences Economiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, HEC Montréal
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Assistant Professor, Economics, Carleton University
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Director of Translational Institute of Medicine (TIME), Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Law, Indiana University
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Instructor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge
