'It is inhumane': Daughter kept from dying mother's bedside because of limits on long-term care visitors
By: Elizabeth Payne
Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the National Institute on Ageing, said there is nothing in the provincial guidelines that limits family members with dying loved ones to a certain amount of time.
Selley: Shameful nursing home report shows how Canada's lockdown strategy went wrong
By Chris Selley
Second of all, we know where the greatest risk lives: not just among the elderly — 96 per cent of fatalities were over 60, according to the latest federal reporting — but very specifically in long-term care homes. Ryerson University’s National Institute on Ageing estimates 81 per cent of deaths nationwide and in Ontario, 82 per cent in Quebec and 95 per cent in Nova Scotia, which has the third-highest fatality rate among provinces, are linked to such environments.
Study paints grim picture of Canada’s care-home mortality rates
By Blair Crawford
But delays in reporting by Public Health Ontario mean that number, too, could be vastly higher. Canada’s National Institute on Ageing’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Tracker suggests Ontario has more than 6,300 cases and 1,021 deaths in long-term care settings — a 62 per cent mortality rate.
