The owners of Canada’s largest private retirement home operator are calling for the Ford PCs at Queen’s Park to loosen COVID-19 related restrictions on retirement homes.
But health experts and seniors advocates warn such a move could put vulnerable seniors at greater risk of exposure to the new coronavirus.
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Dr. Tamara Daly : “This is a business that’s heavily reliant on bricks and mortar buildings, and get- ting more residents in…” Read more here: https://app2.cision.com/redir?s=8500000099771962
Tamara Daly: ” “I think that this notion that things are safe and risk free until proven otherwise…” Read more here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/long-term-care-inspections-violations-1.5737081
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Tamara Daly, Ivy Bourgeault and Katie Aubrect, Institute for Research on Public Policy, May 14, 2020. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/may-2020/long-term-care-work-is-essential-but-essentially-under-recognized/
Keefe, Janice, Mary Jean Hande, Katie Aubrecht, Tamara Daly, Denise Cloutier, Deanne Taylor, Matthias Hoben, Keli Stajduhar, Heather Cook, Ivy Bourgeault, Leah MacDonald, and Carole Estabrooks. (2020). International Journal of Health Policy and Management.
Tamara Daly, Jacqueline Choiniere, Hugh Armstrong, (2020) in Health Matters. eds. Eric Mykhlovskiy, Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, and Jacqueline Choiniere. University of Toronto Press.
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