REPORTS AND PAPERS
- STAYING APART TO STAY SAFE The Impact of Visit Restrictions on LongTerm Care and Assisted Living Survey November 2020
- Association Between Nursing Home Crowding and COVID-19 Infection and Mortality in Ontario, Canada
QUOTABLES:
“It’s important to find and hold accountable those responsible for all these deaths, but it’s even more urgent to make sure no more deaths happen. So, I’m calling on the Premier to establish an expert panel of front-line workers so he can finally start learning the truth about what’s really going wrong in our long-term care homes.”
President Warren (Smokey) Thomas Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU)
Hot of the Press
This is an absolute disaster, @PonJosephine ! What are you doing to protect these seniors??? Or are you just waiting for the inevitable because, as you put it in your Nov 6 statement, “like it or not seniors are at higher risk”?!? #ableg #abseniors https://t.co/3jAUuC5ilt
— Lori Sigurdson (@LoriSigurdson) November 11, 2020
This is one of the things I really felt in the outbreaks at my mom’s home,(among all the million bad things) there is no way to check on the resident. What few staff are left can’t field calls all day. They must figure out a way to get a true update. Communication is important.
— Kathy O’Neill (@kmoneill2) November 11, 2020
I am tormented that I moved my mom into LTC.What she went through before I woke up & brought her home
What she went through in just 11 months 😭For me it wasn’t intentional neglect it was the “institutional environment” that has become normalized, the lack of value for seniors https://t.co/hKiJgP3R8x
— robin nelson (@dg_grrl) November 12, 2020
🤔🤔🤔???? Ummm come again now???
I will guarantee you that this is not the general consensus from those with loved ones in LTC. NOT ONE IOTA. He’s done absolutely nothing he should have to rectify the situation. The state of LTC is worse than its ever been. #Ontario #onpoli https://t.co/29Lw0uNHtC— Natasha (@Natdsjose) November 13, 2020
Alberta News:
10 deaths, 146 cases tied to COVID-19 outbreak at south Edmonton long-term care facility
76 residents, 70 staff have tested positive in 3 weeks at South Terrace Continuing Care Centre
A south Edmonton long-term care facility is being ravaged by an outbreak of COVID-19.
On October 22, one staff member at the South Terrace Continuing Care Centre tested positive.
Three weeks later, 76 residents and 70 staff members have contracted the virus and 10 residents have died, according to Alberta Health Services. Four staff members have recovered.
COVID-19 has spread through all five wings of the facility that is owned and operated by Revera Inc.
Revera told CBC there are currently 90 residents in the home. That means about 84 per cent of residents who live at South Terrace have tested positive for COVID-19.
Karen Steiner’s 79-year-old father is a South Terrace resident. He has advanced dementia and for medical reasons is confined to his bed. The family has asked that his name be withheld.
The facility went into lockdown after an outbreak was declared, so Steiner’s family has been unable to visit him. Because of his dementia, he’s unable to tell his family about current conditions.
UK News
Deadly toll of care homes ban: Halting visits is linked to 5,000 EXTRA dementia deaths in nursing units, figures reveal
More than 5,000 dementia patients died needlessly during lockdown – most of them in care homes, official figures show.
Between March 7 and May 1, when blanket visiting bans were in place, the toll was 52 per cent higher than normal.
Over the past five years an average of 10,345 Britons died from dementia in the same eight-week period, according to the Office for National Statistics.
But this year the figure hit 15,749 – meaning there were 5,404 excess and potentially avoidable deaths.
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- Association Between Nursing Home Crowding and COVID-19 Infection and Mortality in Ontario, Canada
- STAYING APART TO STAY SAFE The Impact of Visit Restrictions on LongTerm Care and Assisted Living Survey BC Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie November 2020
- Nursing Home Basic Care Guarantee RNAO Submission to the Long-Term Care Staffing Study Advisory Group
- 18 May 2020 Old money Tortoise Thousands of care home residents are dying from Covid-19, and staff are on minimum wage. But in the background, big profits are being made. Ian Birrell investigates a broken industry
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