#ELDERCARE

I heard a thing on a podcast this weekend, how Americans are really good at acute compassion, but pretty bad at chronic empathy. We, without question, haul strangers out of

1) If there was ever any doubt that the variants are truly driving the third wave in the #COVID19 #pandemic, consider this comparison between Quebec and Ontario. On Feb. 7,

The Joint Economic Committee Hearing, “Connecting More People to Work” will be starting now. Watch here: https://youtu.be/1VGkeop_XLI #FutureOfWorkers .@SenatorHassan just entered @hamiltonproj "Labor Force Nonparticipation: Trends, Causes,

This, from the @globalnews story, is a hint of the emotional trauma CAF members might be undergoing. To see vulnerable elderly people “crying out” or languishing in soiled diapers is

Beware of this claim:«A US resident in a Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) has a median length of stay (LOS) of 5 months until death, so if they die of COVID-19

I will try to restate what I said in the @aconsres Early Career Researcher seminar today. Profs/chairs - when you start hiring again after #COVID19 you will have plenty of

1) Major #COVID19 outbreaks are erupting again in seniors’ residences — mostly in two regions of Quebec — as the province posted on Saturday its highest daily total of new

1) The Résidence Herron nursing home, where staff deserted the elderly occupants early in the #pandemic last March, went into lockdown again Sunday after an employee tested positive for #COVID19.

1) In the past 10 days, the number of Montrealers dying from #coronavirus jumped more than five-fold —from 29 on April 3 to 162 on Monday. Ninety of those who

1) A week after Premier @francoislegault said he'd keep bars open despite #COVID19 outbreaks in some of them, two Montreal drinking establishments closed their doors Thursday because of exposure to

1) Nearly two weeks after Montreal public health officials disclosed a major #COVID19 outbreak at a seniors’ residence on Sherbrooke St. E., this cluster of cases still hasn’t appeared in

Sara B. Pritchard

November is #NationalFamilyCaregiversMonth. I'm going to do some irregular posts this month on this impt--and vastly unappreciated--issue, especially given the pandemic.https://nationaltoday.com/national-family-caregivers-month/ "C

The Ferrari Lab

In a bittersweet marker of progress against this pandemic, @shybearbrewing is no longer doing home delivery of beer. I prefer no COVID and no beer delivery to COVID and beer

Trust students. Respect students. Give extensions, no questions asked, no doctor's note needed. Grade their learning. We do not know what students are surviving. We do not need to know

Yesterday, for #WomanCrushWednesday, we honored the women on the frontlines of the fight against #COVID19. Pictured is Brianna in Detroit, MI, sister of a Sierra Club staff member. She is

Natalie Nichols

NatalieGNichols

.@GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick @travisfortexas @SenatorNichols @CMSGov #TeamTexasHHS #MichelleDionneVahalik #PhilWilson #VictoriaFordWhen is @TexasHHSC going to distinguish between #EssentialFamilyCaregivers and casual visitors to #nursinghome