Thread by @picardonhealth, Desperate long-term care homes struggle to find staff as #COVID19 sickens residents [...]

André Picard

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Desperate long-term care homes struggle to find staff as #COVID19 sickens residents and sidelines workers, by @MoiraWelsh https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/04/09/desperate-long-term-care-homes-struggle-to-find-staff-as-covid-19-sickens-resident-and-sidelines-workers.html via @torontostar #LTC

Desperate long-term care homes struggle to find staff as COVID-19 sickens resident and sidelines...

‘I think overall people are afraid of being in homes with COVID, says Rekai Centres CEO Sue Graham-Nutter. Doris Grinspun blames years of systemic und...

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/04/09/desperate-long-term-care-homes-struggle-to-find-staff-as-covid-19-sickens-resident-and-sidelines-workers.html

#COVID19 carnage: Why seniors in institutional care are hardest hit by #coronavirus, by @ReneBruemmer https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/covid-carnage-why-quebec-seniors-are-hardest-hit-by-coronavirus/wcm/ba7d52e1-1075-4d31-98a0-39fb3724d1b5 via @mtlgazette #LTC

COVID carnage: Why Quebec seniors are hardest hit by coronavirus

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/covid-carnage-why-quebec-seniors-are-hardest-hit-by-coronavirus/wcm/ba7d52e1-1075-4d31-98a0-39fb3724d1b5

Support, don’t abandon, long-term care during the #COVID19 crisis https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/04/08/support-dont-abandon-long-term-care-during-the-covid-19-crisis.html via @torontostar #LTC

Support, don’t abandon, long-term care during the COVID-19 crisis

When individuals are removed from a skilled facility to be cared for in another environment without supports, these frail seniors will end up back in ...

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/04/08/support-dont-abandon-long-term-care-during-the-covid-19-crisis.html

Almost half of #COVID19 deaths in Ontario are in long-term care - 84 (and there are 200+ deaths in #LTC nationally)
via @IacovosMichael

When a resident of long-term care develops #COVID19, should they be sent to hospital or just offered comfort care? Families are struggling with that decision
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-homes-covid-1.5526839?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar via @cbcnews #LTC

Families face 'difficult decisions' about sending elderly COVID-19 patients to hospital | CBC News

Some of Ontario’s long-term care homes are now asking families to make a heart-wrenching decision about whether or not to send elderly relatives who contract COVID-19 to hospital.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-homes-covid-1.5526839?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

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