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Policy and Research Articles

 

Blue Zones and Healthy Aging 

John Lord

This article appeared in the Waterloo Region Record on March 1, 2023.

March 6, 2023

 

 

TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS

 

COMMUNITY CREATIVITY AND

RESILIENCE IN ACTION:  

 

THE MOUNT COMMUNITY CENTRE, PETERBOROUGH

 

February 13, 2023

 

INFORMATION BULLETIN

January 23, 2023

THE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION - SURVIVOR’S STORIES

 

In May of 2021, SSAO distributed an editorial on Creating Change in an Entrenched Long-Term Care System: Lessons From the Past (SSAO, 2021).  It details that where we are now with the mass institutionalization of elders is exactly where we were in 1971 with the mass institutionalization of people with developmental disabilities. 

 

Except that things are even worse now.

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​Research Bulletin

A Changed Role for PSWs:

Enter Community Care Workers

 

January 2, 2023

 

 

TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS

 

HEALTH CARE CO-OPS – IS IT TIME?

 

December 5, 2022

 

 

LINKING RESEARCH TO POLICY AND PRACTICE

 

DOING WITH OR DOING FOR? REABLEMENT AS AN OLDER ADULTS’ EMPOWERMENT STRATEGY

 

November 21, 2022

 

RESEARCH REPORT

 

LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN WHO HELPS RESIDENTS RETURN TO THE COMMUNITY

 

October 20, 2022

 

INFORMATION BULLETIN

September 16, 2022

IMPACT OF BILL 7

 

On Thursday, September 15, 2022, the Toronto Star reported on Bill 7’s possible impact.  There are several important takeaways in the article.

The first is the widespread fear the Ford government’s actions are causing. There is a perception among old, sick people and their families that this government has weaponized hospitals to take action against them if they or their families dare to resist or speak out. Sue, the subject of the Star’s report, asked that her last name be kept private over “fear of repercussions for speaking out on the new legislation…”

INFORMATION BULLETIN

August 22, 2022

 

ONTARIO INTRODUCES A BILL THAT REMOVES INDIVIDUALS' RIGHTS TO CONSENT TO ADMISSION TO A LONG TERM CARE INSTITUTION AND THEIR RIGHT TO CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER OF THEIR PERSONAL HEALTH INFORMATION

PRECEDENT!

 

Federal Government Partners with City Of Toronto to Create Staffed 24/7 Housing and Support for People at Risk of Homelessness Including Older Adults

 

July 28, 2022

 

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TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS

 

CO-HOUSING OR SHARED OWNERSHIP –

ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE TO INSTITUTIONS

 

July 11, 2022

 

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TAKING MATTERS INTO OUR OWN HANDS

 

CARE CO-OPERATIVES – A BETTER APPROACH TO CARING FOR EACH OTHER

 

July 4, 2022

 

HOW LOCAL COUNCILORS CAN ACT TO PROMOTE ALTERNATIVES
TO INSTITUTIONS

THE EXAMPLE OF PACE, BURLINGTON

 

June 20, 2022

 

POLICY AND PLANNING BRIEF
TO
PORT HOPE COUNCIL

October 25, 2021

Posted: June 23, 2022

 

A RESIDENTIAL ALTERNATIVE TO INSTITUTIONS FOR OLDER ADULTS LIVING WITH DEMENTIA

June 13, 2022

Social Task Shifting:

What’s different about directly-funded home care?

 

Christine Kelly

June 10, 2022

Hospice Palliative Care:

Key Component of Comprehensive Elder Care

 

June 5, 2022

Enhancing HomeCare:

  Enabling a Full Life in Community

 

Linda Till

​March 15, 2022

AGING WELL WITH "NATURAL SUPPORTS"

John Lord

​March 8, 2022

Information Bulletin 

 

COMMUNITY FIRST CHOICE:

PERSON-DIRECTED SERVICES TO KEEP PEOPLE AT HOME

​March 1, 2022

 

DEMENTIA VILLAGES: 

A NEW TYPE OF INSTITUTION?

​February 15, 2022

​Research, Evidence, and Elder Care Reform

 

John Lord

January 27, 2022

 

Pervasive Ageism and Bias Toward

Older Adults in the Healthcare System

Emma Rowland

December 20, 2021

 

Direct Funding Can Enhance Home Care for Elders

John Lord

December 7, 2021

 

RESEARCH REPORT –

MONEY FOLLOWS THE PERSON

​NOVEMBER 18, 2021

 

Eldercare Reform –

A Provincial Election Priority

​NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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