As COVID-19 exposes long-term care crisis, efforts grow to keep more seniors at home
As COVID-19 exposes long-term care crisis, efforts grow to keep more seniors at home
Feb 03, 2021 - The benefit of increased home-care investment in Canada is getting long-overdue attention, now that COVID-19 has torn through long-term care homes, killing thousands of residents and exposing lethal weaknesses in the system, said Dr. Samir Sinha, head of geriatrics at Mount Sinai and University Health Network hospitals in Toronto.
"Long-term care is at a crossroads," said Sinha, who is also the director of health policy research for the National Institute on Ageing.
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