Category: In the News
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COVID-19 has exposed major faults in Ontario’s long-term care, expert says
July 1, 2020, James Burrows, Georgina Post. Read more here: https://georginapost.com/2020/07/01/covid-19-has-exposed-major-faults-in-ontarios-long-term-care-expert-says/
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Ontario long-term care wait list reached 38,400 amid pandemic
QP Briefing, Sneh Duggal, July 16, 2020, Read more here: https://www.qpbriefing.com/2020/07/16/ontario-long-term-care-wait-list-reached-38400-amid-pandemic/
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Coronavirus: Ontario’s worst hit nursing homes and who owns them
BY STEWART BELL AND ANDREW RUSSELL,Global News Interview with Dr. Tamara Daly. Read more here: https://globalnews.ca/news/7059683/coronavirus-ontarios-worst-hit-nursing-homes/
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How Australia’s long-term care system avoided COVID-19 crisis
Why Australia’s long-term care homes saw almost no COVID-19-related deaths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zPnloTXnSc
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Australia’s COVID-19 successes shine a light on Canada’s troubled long-term care sector
More than 6,000 Canadians have died in long-term care homes from COVID-19, compared to 29 in Australia. Read more here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/australia-covid-19-long-term-care-1.5591912
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Ontario’s for-profit nursing homes — which have significantly higher rates of COVID-19 deaths — have 17% fewer workers, new Star analysis reveals by Brendan Kennedy
https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/06/05/ontarios-for-profit-nursing-homes-which-have-significantly-higher-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-have-17-fewer-workers-new-star-analysis-reveals.html
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For-profit nursing homes have had far worse COVID-19 outcomes than public facilities — and three of the largest paid out $1.5 billion to shareholders
“I think the money would be more appropriately spent on hiring permanent, full-time staff, paying higher wages and benefits…” – Dr. Daly May 16, 2020 Read full article: https://www.thestar.com/business/2020/05/16/for-profit-nursing-homes-have-had-far-worse-covid-19-outcomes-than-public-facilities-and-three-of-the-largest-paid-out-15-billion-to-shareholders.html
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Long-term care work is essential, but essentially under-recognized.
May 14th, 2020 Long-term care work is essential, but has not been properly valued. Poor working conditions put both staff and residents at risk. Read the full article here: https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2020/long-term-care-work-is-essential-but-essentially-under-recognized/
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Dr. Tamara Daly on Fresh Air with Nana aba Duncan
Dr. Tamara Daly has a new report on long term care looking at homes in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Scotland. She says the way we measure the quality of care is causing some of the problems in these homes and describes some of the best care people have had. May 9th, 2020 Link to…
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AIRAANZ 2019 (Melbourne)
Session: Paid care work: employment, regulation & job quality Count Down: Temporality and the construction of care work Tamara Daly and Donna Baines February 12-14, 2019. For more information, visit the AIRAANZ 2019 conference website for details.