Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research, discusses the LTC Tracker on the Global News Morning Show.
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The NIA's National Senior Strategy is mentioned in this Canada's National Observer article which discusses the lack of affordable home care for older adults in Canada.
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Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research, discusses the LTC Tracker on Global News Radio Hamilton.
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NIA survey data is mentioned in this National Post article which explores how renovations can help homeowners age in place.
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Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald, NIA Director of Financial Security Research, tells Benefits Canada that Canadians can maximize the impact of the recent increase to Old Age Security by delaying retirement for as long as possible.
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The National Institute on Ageing has had to stop its work tracking COVID-19 in long-term care and retirement homes because provinces are no longer making enough information public about the spread of the virus in the sector, Holly McKenzie-Sutter writes for The Canadian Press.
Lack of access to public data on outbreaks, cases and deaths makes it harder to assess what’s happening in the sector and makes governments less accountable to pressure from the public, said Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research. “I think politically, it’s become more convenient to just not really report information, as opposed to continuing to remind people that we still have systemic and ongoing problems in protecting our long-term care spaces and their residents."
Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research, discusses the LTC Tracker on the Zoomer Radio.
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Dr. Samir Sinha talks to CBC News about the lack of air conditioning in long-term care homes during extreme heat waves.
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Dr. Samir Sinha explains why our health care care system does not have enough capacity to provide older adults care that matches their needs in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
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Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research, urges the importance of ensuring long-term care residents to stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations during the seventh wave in this Canadian Press article.
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Dr. Samir Sinha writes in his Ottawa Citizen opinion piece that the Ontario government can help level the playing field for non-profit long-term care homes that lack the capital and development supports that for-profit homes receive.
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Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research, discusses the importance of ensuring that older adults stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines during Ontario's seventh wave of COVID-19 in CBC News.
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Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research, discusses the importance of ensuring that older adults stay up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines during Ontario's seventh wave of COVID-19 in Everything Zoomer.
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Belleville Intelligencer columnist Shell-Lee Wert cites the Canadian Red Cross Emergency Preparedness guide as she explains the importance of emergency preparedness for older adults.
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Keith Ambachtsheer, NIA Senior Fellow in Retirement Income Security, talks to The Logic about why Canadian pension fund investors are continuing to look at capital buying opportunities amid a market downtown.
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Even as Ontario began reopening its economy and returning to some semblance of normalcy this year, COVID-19 was wreaking havoc on the lives of older residents. New data shows the Omicron variant was killing adults age 60 and older at higher rates than the past two waves, Kenyon Wallace, Megan Ogilvie and May Warren write for the Toronto Star.
The fact that seniors are the ones most likely to experience severe illness and death if they contract Omicron underscores the importance of getting fully vaccinated and boosted, says Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research. “I’ve seen a lot more of my older patients, after being vigilant for two years, now being told all these messages that the pandemic is almost over, and then all of a sudden they’re getting COVID. I’m not surprised that we’re seeing again the majority of the deaths that are occurring are amongst older people, because we know that they’ve always been the most vulnerable.”
The Victoria Times Colonist discusses the recent report from NIA and RTOERO Foundation about why Canada's ageing population is at increased risk of experiencing social isolation and loneliness.
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NIA Co-Founder Mitch Frazer's career and accomplishments, including founding the National Institute on Ageing, are celebrated in this profile for Canadian Lawyer Magazine.
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The NIA report Affordable Lifetime Pension Income for a Better Tomorrow by Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald, NIA Director of Financial Security Research, is featured in Georgetown University's 2021 Policy Innovation Forum Report.
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Ontario doesn’t need more of the same long-term care system we already have — we need a transformed system that will better support older Ontarians, and keep more funding available for the actual delivery of health and social services rather than building more large warehouses to provide care, Dr. Samir Sinha, NIA Director of Health Policy Research, explains in his Toronto Star opinion piece:
"Any approach that simply focuses on expanding and reinforcing the existing LTC system at the expense of other alternatives to support our aging population — such as home care — is doomed to fail. Even with all its new beds, Ontario’s LTC system will have nowhere near the capacity to cope with the demographic tidal wave coming its way."