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“The Big Idea: Help seniors age at home” Jen Recknagel is the director of innovation and design at the University Health Network’s NORC Innovation Centre in Toronto. My grandmother lived in the same house in Cleveland for 50 years. After my grandfather died, she spent 11 of those years alone. Eventually, she developed dementia and…
“The Big Idea: Help seniors age at home” Jen Recknagel is the director of innovation and design at the University Health Network’s NORC Innovation Centre in Toronto. My grandmother lived in the same house in Cleveland for 50 years. After my grandfather died, she spent 11 of those years alone. Eventually, she developed dementia and…
“#Ontario proposes $1-million fines for long-term care homes that fail to meet standards” Politics Insider for Oct. 29, 2021: Nursing home operators could pay millions; Liberals get antsy; Manitoba gets stiffed Ontario revealed legislation on Thursday that would allow for fines of up to $1 million for nursing home operators, and homes that fail to…
“#The push to fill Canada’s critical PSW shortage” Jasmine Joseph started a customer service job at Apple straight out of high school. “Even then, I was thinking about going into health care but felt intimidated by the required biology and chemistry courses,” says the 28-year-old who lives in Toronto. She worked the job for a…
“#The joy and shock of face-to-face human contact” At 98, Yoshia Uomoto can’t hear very well. That made it tricky to communicate with her family whenever they visited her, separated as they were by a window pane at her assisted living facility in Seattle. But after Mark Uomoto, Yoshia’ 68-year-old son, and his cousin, Gail Yamada, got…
“#COVID-19 in long-term care: a report from inside” Paul Wells: Commissioned by one of the country’s largest long-term care home operators, the report takes a hard look at what went wrong and how to fix it Here’s something new: a thorough, sometimes scathing report on the COVID-19 outbreak in private-sector long-term care homes, commissioned by…
“#The year of the pandemic has busted the myth that Canada values its seniors” Decades of promises to improve the quality of life of elderly Canadians have gone unfulfilled. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the ugly truth. This has been a year of realizing that what we thought was solid ground beneath our collective…
“#Seniors deserve a life worth living during the COVID-19 pandemic” Our editorial: While physical isolation is key to the current approach to fighting COVID-19, it is also a significant causal factor in mental and physical problems among the elderly “Feeling that he might as well be dead”—and concerned that his nursing home administrator might find…