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Alberta government shifts continuing care from Health to Seniors Ministry
Environment and Parks Minister Jason Nixon is seen during a news conference in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020. The Alberta government says long-term care and supportive living programs will no longer be under the purview of Alberta's health ministry. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
canada
The rules for ‘granny cams’ in long-term care homes are unclear, with both families and staff looking for certainty
Camille Parent outside his 20-year-old vacuum store along a busy street in Peterborough, Ontario, on October 8, 2024. Ever since he discovered his mother was being abused in nursing home in 2013 on a hidden camera he installed, Parent has been advocating for mistreated seniors at long term care facilities. October 8, 2024. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)
canada
Controversial law designed to free up hospital beds to be tested in Ontario court
The entrance sign to the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday, October 19, 2021. The Ontario government says it plans to recoup loan payments issued to doctors at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic to cover their increased costs and loss of revenue from lower patient volumes. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Evan Buhler
world
Texas attorney-general sues Biden administration over nursing home staffing rule
FILE Ñ A nursing home employee with a patient at a nursing home in Worthington, Pa., on March 23, 2021. Experts agree that more nurses and aides mean better care, but thereÕs no consensus on how many is ideal. The right ratio also depends on how frail a nursing homeÕs residents are. (Kristian Thacker/The New York Times)
charting retirement
Are we prepared for the coming explosion in long-term care needs?
Close up hands of caregiver doctor helping old woman at private clinic. Close up of hands of nurse holding a senior patient with walking stick. Elder woman using walking cane at nursing home with nurse holding hand for support.
canada
More than 100 people evacuated from Toronto-area nursing home during flood
Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services prepare to evacuate people from Tyndall nursing home following flooding caused by a torrential downpour in this July 16, 2024 handout photo posted to X. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - @MississaugaFES **MANDATORY CREDIT**
canada
RSV vaccination programs recommended for seniors, national immunization committee says
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is strongly recommending vaccination programs against RSV for older seniors and those living in long-term care homes.This electron microscope image provided by the National Institutes of Health shows human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) virions, colorized blue, and anti-RSV F protein/gold antibodies, colorized yellow, shedding from the surface of human lung cells. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH via AP, File
canada
Ontario may not meet LTC direct care target due to staff shortages, document says
Difficulties hiring and retaining enough nurses and personal support workers for long term care homes could mean the Ontario government may not meet its target for the amount of hands-on care residents receive, the minister responsible for the sector was warned. Stan Cho, Ontario's Minister of Long-Term Care attends Question Period at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
canada
Wild turkey breaks into Quebec long-term care home, no injuries reported
A Quebec regional health authority says no residents were impacted after a wild turkey broke in to a long-term care centre south of Quebec City over the weekend. A wild turkey is shown at the Falardeau Zoo and refuge in Saint-David-de-Falardeau, Que., on Friday, April 7, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
canada
Ontario won’t divulge total fines for hospital patients refusing transfers to LTC
<p>Ontario Health Minister Sylvia Jones responds to questions during a news conference in Vancouver, on Monday, November 7, 2022. Jones and her ministry are refusing to divulge the amount of money that seven patients in the province have been fined for refusing transfers from a hospital to a long-term care home not of their choosing. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</p>
canada
Ontario awarded four cities millions for meeting housing goals after count tallied care beds
Ontario is taking another step toward renovations of the legislature, proposing to create a new ministry to oversee them. Legislative Affairs Minister Paul Calandra introduced the bill today. Calandra answers a question as Premier Doug Ford looks on, at Queen's Park in Toronto on Tuesday, Feb.21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
canada
Ontario looks at counting student residences toward aim of building 1.5 million homes
Paul Calandra, Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing speaks during a press conference regarding housing development in the Greater Toronto Area at Toronto City Hall, in Toronto on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Arlyn McAdorey
canada
New priority rules impacting cultural LTC homes in Ontario: ‘I feel for these residents’
A health-care worker helps an elderly man do strength exercises at the Ivan Franko Long-term Care Home, a Ukrainian cultural home in Toronto on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
health & fitness
How this 97-year-old runner broke world records without training
Ninety-six year old Rejeanne Fairhead, left, shown in this handout image, says until two years ago the most athletic things she had ever done involved bowling and horse shoes. Now she is a world-record holding racer. Fairhead completed the 5K race at the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend Saturday in just over 51 minutes.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend **MANDATORY CREDIT **
report on business
Pitching in: Offering discount haircuts to people in need
For pitching in - Senior stylist Mariah Riplinger cuts the hair of Kristina Everett (right) during Welcome Wednesday, where haircuts are offered for $5-10, and free for youth and elders, on last Wednesday of every month at Big Joy Barber & Salon in Vancouver, B.C., on September 27, 2023. (Jennifer Gauthier/The Globe and Mail)
canada
Ontario hospitals, LTC homes spent nearly $1-billion on agency staff last year
Ambulances sit at the emergency room entrance at the Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto on Thursday, April 29, 2021. There reports that the hospital experienced a potential exhaustion of its supply of oxygen and had to send COVID-19 patients to other hospitals across the GTA Thursday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
alberta
Alberta health minister says non-profit that shipped stroke patient to motel off list
Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange makes a health-care announcement in Calgary on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. LaGrange says a non-profit that shipped a stroke patient to a motel for his long-term recovery will be taken off a roster of agencies that provide non-medical care in the community. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
canada
Ontario long-term care patients can be transferred 150 kilometres away under new rules
canada
'It’s community that she misses': Nunavut elders face growing old far from home
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carrick on money
Man spends $1-million so wife with dementia can live at home
Rob Carrick
Rob Carrick