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Empowering the elderly in Japan: lessons for home care in Canada
…Japanese residents above 40 years old are required to pay into long-term care insurance premiums, which pay for about half of long-term care services. (Corporate and personal taxes cover the…
Waiting for long-term care in Ontario
…for long-term care – and some who are currently in long-term care – could be cared for at home or in “assisted living” facilities if they were provided with the…
Improving quality and safety in Ontario's nursing homes
…done to ensure that the more than 75,000 people who call long-term care ‘home’ receive high quality care? Long-term care in Ontario Ontario has 634 nursing homes, or long-term care…
Alberta's innovative approach to paying for long-term care
…public calls to build more long-term care beds for several years. Instead of bending to these expensive demands, Alberta is overhauling the long-term care system to try and use its…
Improving quality in Canada’s nursing homes requires “more staff, more training”
…recent years, and the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care has recently announced that it will be hiring 100 additional inspectors to monitor the long term care sector. However,…
Improving appropriateness of antipsychotic use in long-term care
…Bueckert, disrupting these assumptions required “cautious exploration” on the part of frontline workers, as well as buy-in from long term care leaders, physicians and family members. “They had to be…
Caring for Canada's seniors will take our entire health care workforce
…a partnership between community paramedics and the community’s long-term care facility (North Renfrew Long Term Care) that provides housekeeping, maintenance and personal support worker services. The program runs 24 hours…
The good and the bad - retirement homes have stepped into the gap to provide long-term care
…Range from independent living → supportive housing and care → convalescent → complex long-term care Services Care and support for residents with complex long-term healthcare needs This summer Dad was…
Changes called for as 1% of population accounts for 1/3 of health care spending
Ontario’s Health and Long-term Care Minister is calling for a change in how health care costs are scrutinized in light of research showing that a tiny proportion of the Ontario…
Bed blocking a problem of equity, not just efficiency
…facilitate the reduction of discharge delays in acute care. There is growing awareness of the need for increased specialization in long term care. The Ontario Long Term Care Association’s Long…
Expert advice for Ontario Ombudsman on his bid for jurisdiction over hospitals and long term care facilities
Ontario Ombudsman André Marin’s bid for jurisdiction to investigate complaints about patients’ experiences at the province’s hospitals and long-term care facilities has support from a wide range of patient advocacy…
Beyond tokenism: How hospitals are getting more out of patient engagement
…of his involvement on various “patient engagement” roles at Sick Kids and elsewhere. While the term is defined in numerous ways, in plain terms, patient engagement in health care delivery…
The next challenges for primary care in Ontario
…and quality. In response, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care is conducting a review of these models, and had recently instituted a temporary freeze on the hiring of…
The dangers of financialized long-term care
…legal action related to COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths; another asked whether the company was allocating more staff to residents “than is required.” Revera, one of the biggest long-term care providers…
No need to sell the house when searching for a nursing home
…father’s care. The Answer: It can be daunting to search for a long-term care facility at the last minute when returning home is no longer possible for your father. You…
Supporting Ontario's unpaid caregivers
…finding cost-effective ways to support caregivers is essential not just for the long-term health of caregivers and care recipients, but also the healthcare system itself. Ontario’s patchwork of caregiver supports…
Making sense of Ontario's fee codes
…through negotiations between the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario Medical Association. Although fees are reviewed every few years, there is disagreement about the success of…
Many hospitals don’t do enough to support health workers after an adverse event
…a doctor who has been studying medical errors for more than 15 years, coined the term “second victim” in 2000 to describe health workers who suffer psychologically after an adverse…
Weight loss surgery: what do we know about quality?
…terms of clinical outcomes – the amount of long-term weight loss after surgery, and the frequency of complications after surgery. Adjustable gastric banding reduces the size of the stomach by…