SENIORS FOR SOCIAL ACTION (ONTARIO)
In The News
Ottawa Citizen - April 22, 2022
Ontario ignoring lessons of pandemic, building a generation of private care homes, critics say
Three private long-term care companies, including one with among the highest death rates during the pandemic, are slated to build the bulk of new and upgraded long-term care beds in Ottawa.
By Elizabeth Payne
Toronto Star - May 27, 2022
By Marco Chown Oved Investigative Reporter
Kenyon Wallace Investigative Reporter
Ed Tubb Toronto Star
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COVID-19 deaths piled up as this LTC home missed deadlines to fix infection control, prevention problems. This was the government’s ‘pathetic’ response
By Kenyon Wallace Investigative Reporter
Special to Waterloo Region Record
Sun., May 30, 2021
Connecting with nature shouldn’t be considered a ‘luxury’ in long-term care
By John Lord
'It's still an institution:' Advocates urge radical change for LTC
By Joanne Laucius
Op-Ed -
The Hamilton Spectator Wed., Mar. 3, 2021
Relationships matter in eldercare
By Rachel Barken and Douglas J. Cartan
Op-Ed -
Special to Waterloo Region Record Mon., Feb. 1, 2021
Time to Shift Our Thinking on Long Term Care
By John Lord, Contributor
Op-Ed - Toronto Star - Dec 30, 2020
Time to provide funding and real choice in long-term care
By Judith Sandys Contributor
Patricia Spindel Contributor
Only a fraction of long-term-care residents killed by COVID-19 were taken to hospital. A Mount Sinai doctor says the system ‘shut them out’ with beds available
By Kenyon Wallace Investigative Reporter
Sun., Dec. 6, 2020
For-profit long-term-care homes once again seeing significantly worse outcomes in Ontario’s second wave, Star analysis finds
By Ed Tubb Toronto Star
Kenyon Wallace Investigative Reporter
Marco Chown Oved Staff Reporter
Fri., Nov. 13, 2020