Remembrance Day 2020: CBC News Special
Rosemary Barton hosts special coverage of the national Remembrance Day service in Ottawa and speaks with Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the National institute on Ageing.
HOUSES OF HORROR
By: Jason McBride
Samir Sinha, director of health policy at the National Institute on Ageing is blunt: “The ways we’ve organized and financed and staffed these homes—they have so many vulnerabilities. They were sitting ducks.”
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COVID-19 in Maples Senior Care Home - Is Enough Being Done?
Dr. Samir Sinha, director of health policy research at the NIA joined CTV news Winnipeg to discuss the recent surge of COVID-19 cases at Maples Senior Care Home.
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Toronto announces stricter measures after breaking COVID-19 records
Ontario's COVID-19 situation continues to worsen, but the province is staying the course. So Toronto is charting its own course and tightening restrictions with NIA Associate Fellow Dr. Nathan Stall.
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Some Want the Province to Go Further with Restrictions, as New Daily Cases Hit the Highest Point Yet
By: Lorenda Reddekopp
National Institute on Ageing associate fellow, Dr. Nathan Stall joins CBC Toronto to discuss increasing cases of COVID-19 in long-term care. Dr. Stall says, "It's gotten to the point where I truly believe that government feels the cost of doing business in this province is the death of about 8-12 long-term care residents a day in our province. They have shown no indication that they are willing to change course."
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It’s been 28 days, and Toronto is scheduled to reduce restrictions. What are five key indicators telling us?
By: Jennifer Yang
A study that geriatrician and Associate Fellow at the National institute on Ageing, Dr. Nathan Stall, co-authored in August showed that the risk of a long-term-care outbreak was strongly linked to case numbers in the surrounding community.
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Crowded nursing homes linked to larger and more deadly outbreaks of Covid-19, study says
By: Naomi Thomas
Crowded nursing homes were linked to larger and more deadly outbreaks of Covid-19 according to a study published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. "In this study of nursing home crowding across 618 nursing homes in Ontario, Canada, we found that residents of highly crowded homes were more than twice as likely to develop infection with and die of Covid-19," wrote authors Kevin Brown, from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and Dr. Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the National Institute on Ageing.
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COVID-19 Outbreaks in Manitoba
COVID-19 outbreaks in Manitoba long term care homes are concerning. Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute on Ageing, Dr. Samir Sinha, talked about what can be done to protect older adults.
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Maples care home not fully staffed during Friday crisis, despite claims it was, union says
By: Joanne Levasseur
But Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute on Ageing, who has been closely watching the long term care home crisis in Manitoba unfold, said residents would typically get IVs for dehydration "because there's not enough staff around to actually hydrate residents or they might not have family members there who can hydrate them."
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‘I didn’t feel right’: This 80-year-old Toronto shelter resident thought she was losing her mind. Turns out, she had COVID-19 — with none of the typical symptoms
By: Victoria Gibson
That kind of delirium is one of the atypical ways that COVID-19 can show up, particularly in older adults, said Toronto geriatrician and Associate Fellow at the National Institute on Ageing, Dr. Nathan Stall. But because it doesn’t look like a typical case, it’s also the kind of situation where the virus can go undetected.
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The single biggest mistake of the pandemic.’ Ontario’s sudden shift in pandemic strategy rattles medical community
By: Bruce Arthur
The province didn’t ask Ontario’s geriatrics community. Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute on Ageing blasted it. Dr. Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the National Institute on Ageing, compared it to the Great Barrington Declaration, which was a herd immunity document that posited, with no evidence, that vulnerable parts of the population could be protected if societies reopened with no restrictions. He’s not wrong.
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Red Cross not enough to help Manitoba care homes battling outbreaks, families say
By: Jill Coubrough, Joanne Levasseur ·
Dr. Nathan Stall, Associate Fellow at the National Institute on Ageing, calls the situation inside Manitoba personal care homes a "humanitarian crisis," and he says it should never have gotten to the point of calling in the Red Cross.
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Why are older adults more vulnerable to COVID-19?
Marilyn Denis speaks to geriatrician and Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute on Ageing Dr. Samir Sinha about how the coronavirus affects older adults.
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Pharmacies facing flu shot shortages the one year people are anxious to roll up their sleeves. Is this a missed opportunity?
By: Kate Allen
This is “the one year that (people) are finally willing to roll up their sleeves to get a vaccination,” noted Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research at the National Institute on Ageing in Toronto.
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Changes coming to Long Term Care homes
Kelly talks to Dr. Samir Sinha, Director of Health Policy Research for the National Institute on Ageing about the proposed changes to Ontario's LTC system.
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Some families say isolation is worse than COVID for loved ones in long-term care homes
By: Pamela Fieber
The National Institute on Aging is tracking COVID-19 and the toll it is taking on retirement homes across the country. Greenspon's comments show how care home residents are struggling to cope, said Dr. Samir Sinha, the director of Health Policy Research for the Institute, and the director of geriatrics for the Sinai Health System.
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COVID-19: What We Know About the Second Wave and a Targeted Approach for Protecting Canadians
By: Tara Losinski and Peter Muggridge
With 509 LTC resident active COVID-19 cases in Ontario reported on Saturday (an increase of 50 from the previous day) and a case fatality rate of approximately 30 per cent in this population, Associate Fellow at the National Institute on Ageing, Dr. Nathan Stall, predicts many more deaths will be recorded in the coming days.