looking forward to discussing (with great colleagues) about the forthcoming reform of #LongTermCare system in #Italy

tomorrow @ INRCA

#aging #caregiving

“Around 18 million #overtime hours were worked in that time period in #Canada's #hospitals, representing the work of around 9,000 full-time jobs – a stark reminder of how woefully understaffed and overworked our health-care system is.
While the number of #nurses is still increasing in most provinces and territories, the number has decreased in some settings, such as #LongTermCare, which has seen a two per cent decrease in nurses between 2020 and 2021.”

“That's been particularly evident among nurses. While the number of nurses in most regions has gone up, the number of those actually working in certain health-care settings has dropped, #CIHI figures show.

There was a roughly two per cent decrease in the number of registered #nurses providing direct patient care in #LongTermCare homes between 2020 and 2021, for instance.”

A group of top medical experts is calling on federal officials to launch a full national inquiry into Canada's pandemic response.

More than a dozen physicians and health advocates are shining a spotlight on what they've dubbed the country's "major pandemic failures," from the devastation in long-term care homes, to vaccine hoarding, to higher death rates among lower-income communities.

#Covid19 #Canada #HealthCare #LongTermCare #IncomeInequality #Vaccines

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/top-medical-experts-call-for-national-inquiry-into-canada-s-covid-19-failures-1.6916419

Ontario long-term care homes with poor care records are getting tax dollars to expand.

A CBC analysis shows enforcement and accountability measures lacking since the new Fixing Long-Term Care Act

These goons profit off the suffering of those in long term care! And they get YOUR tax dollars to expand!

Vote every chance you get! Email your MPP!

#OnPoli #Ontario #LongTermCare #FuckCapitalism

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/long-term-care-homes-expanding-1.6900293

I was surprised to find out that each province set their own standards which vary widely. #LTC #LongTermCare #cdnpoli #onpoli
https://www.castanet.net/news/Poll/435456/Should-there-be-mandatory-national-standards-for-long-term-care-in-Canada

Prevalence of #PalliativeCare Needs in Older Adults With Multimorbidity

More than one-third of nursing home residents may require palliative #care, but limited resources cause unmet needs...

#Geriatrics #IntegratedCareSystems #LongTermCare

https://www.jamda.com/article/S1525-8610(23)00479-6/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

We are failing to protect our vulnerable. This is eugenics. Long term care and healthcare settings should be safe.

#WearAMask #Healthcare #Canada #LongTermCare #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

At least seven New Brunswick long-term care homes have active COVID-19 outbreaks, just weeks after the Department of Social Development lifted masking requirements for all employees in long-term-care homes.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-outbreak-nursing-homes-masking-new-brunswick-1.6862178

#OldAge #Seniors #NursingHome #SocialSecurity #GoldenYears

One of the worst things you learn with aging parents:

they often flush things like hearing aids or eyeglasses down the toilet
or try to
or just drop them

or at least, that is what the people at the nursing home or long term care facility tell me

#LongTermCare
#Medicare #Medicaid

"There are very real consequences when we fail to ensure adequate standards of health care for Islanders. It's quite literally a life or death matter," said Green Leader Peter-Bevan Baker. #longtermcare #peipoli #peihealthcare

https://t.co/hAWjp6JDQH

“#Masks minimally impair those who wear them, but the impacts of #COVID19 on #vulnerable people are well known and they vary from the mild to the deadly. If there is one space that all vulnerable people should be able to rely on to prioritize their safety, it is in #healthcare settings, including #LongTermCare facilities”

“#COVID has become the second-leading cause of #hospitalization in #Canada, after childbirth. Among those over 50, it is the single leading cause of hospitalization.

We had more #outbreaks in #LongTermCare facilities in 2022 than we had in 2020 and 2021 combined, and more deaths and more hospitalizations than the first two years of the pandemic combined.

COVID is not over, but we are acting like it is.”

Reinfection, immune evasion, and protection of residents in #LTC

This thread looks at multiple studies that help reveal why #SARS2 can #reinfect hosts and evade #immune response, #vaccine waning, and what protects residents in #Ontario #longtermcare and #retirement homes. 🧵 1/

The one page easier to share version of this thread can be found at: https://pingthread.com/thread/1644664310172467201

📣 Publication alert! 📣

CHÉOS Scientist Dr. Lillian Hung with her team, including patient partner Jim Mann, recently published their telepresence #robot work!

Available to read online at BMC here: https://researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40900-023-00421-w

Read our article here: https://www.cheos.ubc.ca/research-in-action/robots-long-term-care/

#healthcare #research #longtermcare #robotics

Merrilee Fullerton quits Doug Ford’s cabinet, resigns as MPP https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2023/03/24/merrilee-fullerton-quits-doug-fords-cabinet-resigns-as-mpp #onpoli #cdnpoli #Autism #LongTermCare #Covid

As Veteran demand for long-term care grows, there is a need for more up to date evidence on the relative benefits of specific purchased personal care services

New PEPReC policy brief from David Biko, Stuart Figueroa, Elsa Pearson Sites, and me:

https://www.peprec.research.va.gov/PEPRECRESEARCH/docs/Policy_Brief_17_HCBS_2.pdf

#longtermcare #homehealthcare #veterans

Delighted to welcome Minister Sergio Murillo Corzo @muricor@twitter.com & colleagues to Oxford to discuss #etxeTIC plan for supporting new models of #LongTermCare #Biscay
https://web.bizkaia.eus/en/web/comunicacion/berriak/-/news/detailView/25178

If you have a family member in long term care, please call them, visit them. These places are so lonely. The staff are there to do their jobs and they often aren't staffed well enough to even do that. I promise your loved one needs your company.
#family
#elderly
#LongTermCare

Looking to relieve health care worker burnout?

https://cheos.ubc.ca/research-in-action/creating-synergy-to-combat-nursing-shortages-in-long-term-care/

CHÉOS Scientist Dr. Farinaz (Naz) Havaei (UBC School of Nursing) published an update on a synergy tool used as an intervention to help relieve burnout.

Read the open-source article here: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/489

#nursing #longtermcare #synergy #research #healthcare #science

Empowerment through #technology in the context of #longtermcare ?
#OxAgeBlog by @CMPotterOxford@twitter.com
#VirtualReality #ROVR #EmergingTechnologies
#CareHome #ageing
https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/blog/Empowerment-through-technology-Offering-virtual-reality-in-care-homes