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Publishing date: Apr 28, 2021  â¢Â 4 hours ago  â¢Â 2 minute read  â¢Â
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TORONTO, April 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) â Ontarioâs Auditor General released a 107-page report today assessing the provinceâs response to COVID-19 in long-term care homes, listing a litany of problems that contributed to the lack of preparedness and inadequate management of the pandemic in the homes. Major issues highlighted in the report include: overcrowded homes, offloading of hospital patients into already overcrowded homes struggling with outbreaks, longstanding understaffing and critical staffing shortages as the pandemic progressed, restrictions on family and caregiver access, widespread non-compliance with sound infection control practices, the cancellation of comprehensive annual surprise inspections, delays and inadequate directives to address the spread of the virus in the homes, and lack of enf
Revolution needed for elderly care
The reality that long-term care can be better
Posted on April 14, 2021 by oshawaexpress in HEALTH, NEWS
Moira Welsh has spent almost two decades writing about seniors living in long-term care and has recently released a book, Happily Ever Older, which details new approaches to how we as a society should look after the elderly.
The genesis for the book began in 2003 when Welsh, an investigative reporter with The Toronto Star, began talking to people about long-term care.
“There were a lot of stories about the aging demographic and the first wave of the boomers turning 65,” she explains. So, she took a deep dive and began an investigation into the world of seniors living in long-term care.
Author of the article: Hannah MacLeod
Publishing date: Mar 12, 2021 • March 12, 2021 • 2 minute read • Joy Specker, a resident at Gateway Haven Long-Term Care in Wiarton, celebrates getting the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. Over 200 residents and staff were given the second vaccine dose Tuesday at Bruce County s long-term care homes in Wiarton and Walkerton. Photo supplied.
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On Tuesday, March 2, 128 residents and 7 staff members at Brucelea Haven Long Term Care Home (Walkerton, ON) and 86 residents and 13 staff members at the Gateway Haven Long Term Care Home (Wiarton, ON) received their second doses of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine. This initiative is part the Grey Bruce Health Unit’s push to complete vaccine coverage for all long-term care residents in Grey Bruce, as well as for those who care for them.
Bruce County long term care homes receive second doses of COVID-19 vaccine seaforthhuronexpositor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from seaforthhuronexpositor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.