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Pat Armstrong
Investing in Care, Not Profit
Recommendations to transform long-term care in Ontario Download 362.38 KB20 pages The evidence is clear, overwhelming and tragic: Canada has a fundamental problem providing quality…
Long-term care reform: No time to waste
No more delays, not more excuses. It’s time to act.
A Higher Standard
Setting federal standards in long-term care and continuing care Download 147.73 KB 10 pages The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of federal government leadership…
If not now, when? The throne speech and long term care
Wednesday’s throne speech offered hints of promising changes to long term care policies—something COVID-19 has exposed as urgently needed. Specifically, the federal government promises…
Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care in the COVID-19 Crisis
Download 406.29 KB 16 pages The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to create a new, better normal at Canadian long-term residential care facilities. The report’s…
Negotiating Tensions in Long-Term Residential Care
Ideas Worth Sharing Download 1.54 MB 136 pages This book is about the tensions in long-term residential care. By tensions, we mean ideas, approaches, practices, programs,…
Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care
Download 851.23 KB 128 pages “Our research indicates that strategies intended to support choices for long-term care residents must be based on the understanding that care is…
Physical Environments for Long-term Care
Ideas Worth Sharing Download 2.02 MB 114 pages This book provides concrete examples of promising practices for physical environments in long-term residential care: everything from…
Fast Facts: Private Long Term Care & Home Care Zombies
UBC economist Robert Evans calls user fees in health care zombies, a policy option that keeps surfacing despite being killed over and over again by…
Promising Practices in Long Term Care
Ideas Worth Sharing Download 2.02 MB 86 pages This book reports on the findings of an international team of 26 researchers and more than 50…
Long-term Care Problems
Both residents and care providers denied fair treatment More, better-paid staff key to improved long-term care Long-term care in Canada fails to treat either residents…
They Deserve Better
The long-term care experience in Canada and Scandanavia “They Deserve Better.” These words of one worker capture the essential message we heard in researching this…
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