August 20, 2020 – Global News
Rally calls for easing of strict visitor rules at Nova Scotia long-term care homes
By: Jesse Thomas
Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research and Co-Chair of the NIA in Toronto, says protecting patients and allowing them the freedom to see their family is a fine balance. Sinha says the pandemic has revealed just how integral the role of a family caregiver is inside a long-term care home. “I think now we started realizing very quickly on, as we locked these homes down, that my goodness, we might have lost 50 per cent of the care that was actually occurring in these homes on an unpaid basis by family caregivers and friends,” said Sinha.