CBC Radio The Current - Canada-wide reckoning over the conditions in long-term care is far from over

"We just made history by having more than 16,000 people die in our long-term care and retirement homes because of this pandemic. Wave after wave we continue to see record numbers of homes entering outbreak. We've got some fundamental, long-standing issues that we really need to address. This became an opportunity for us to take a look at what the existing standards are that led us into this mess in the first place and what can we do to strengthen them so that they speak to what resident-centred care really looks like," says Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research (starts at minute 24).