Seniors' Homes

• Quebec presents plan to ‘overhaul’ long-term care for seniors

  Quebec's minister responsible for seniors announced a plan with 25 measures to improve long-term care, including giving seniors more power over how they want to live their life.

  Health

  May 5, 2022
  
• Peterborough-area health coalitions calling on province to fix issues with long-term care

  Health coalitions in Peterborough, Northumberland and Kawartha Lakes are calling on the province to ensure a minimum of 70 per cent of staff at each LTC are full-time.

  Health

  Jun 22, 2021
  
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• Hundreds of seniors remain on New Brunswick nursing home waitlist

  According to the Coalition for Seniors, 705 people in New Brunswick are on the waiting list for a nursing home bed, and about 56 per cent of those are living in the hospital.

  Health

  Jun 17, 2021
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• Bill would protect Alberta health workers, care homes from some COVID-19 lawsuits

  The bill exempts a range of workers, including doctors, pharmacists, and care-home operators, from being sued over COVID-19 unless it is for gross negligence.

  Politics

  Apr 22, 2021
• N.B. Coalition for Seniors rep has ‘mixed feelings’ about new nursing home announcement

  According to the release, construction of a new nursing home in the Acadian Peninsula could begin this fall and open doors in 2023.

  Health

  Feb 26, 2021
• Many seniors struggle with loneliness. The pandemic has only made it worse

  From living alone to being confined in homes, the pandemic has also brought up important conversations on how seniors in Canada socialize and how long-term care needs to change.

  Lifestyle

  Feb 20, 2021
• New COVID-19 outbreaks declared at two Surrey, one Victoria seniors’ homes

  Fraser Health says two workers at the Guildford Seniors Village have tested positive for COVID-19, as well as one staff member and one resident at Suncreek Village.

  Health

  Jan 9, 2021
• Fraser Health called Grinches for COVID-19 care home decoration policy

  Fraser Health's guidelines require any decorations to be wipeable, ban Christmas trees from common areas where they could be touched and mean no visits from Santas.

  Health

  Dec 12, 2020
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• COVID-19 outbreaks declared at Royal Columbian Hospital, multiple care homes

  The hospital outbreak involves one staff member in a medicine unit. The emergency department remains open.

  Health

  Nov 19, 2020
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• 2 COVID-19 related deaths occur at long-term care facility in Lethbridge as outbreak continues

  As of Tuesday's COVID-19 update, there were four active cases and two recent deaths of residents related to the outbreak at the Edith Cavell Care Centre in Lethbridge.

  Nov 4, 2020