The Rights of Residents in Retirement Homes and Long-Term Care Homes.
Do you have a loved one currently or planning to move into a LTC or a retirement home in Ontario? If so, you need to read this article.
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Financial Exploitation: When Taking Money Amounts to Elder Abuse.
Perpetrator is typically a family member or caregiver.
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Ontario subsidy for seniors’ homes falls short.
What will long-term care homes be like when the Boomers need them?
‘I was in shock’: Police probe Ottawa nursing home after elderly woman found with maggots in wound
How’s the quality of care in Canadian long-term-care facilities?
Former Woodstock, Ont., nurse facing 8 murder charges in deaths of elderly clients.
Police have charged Wettlaufer with murder alleging she killed eight nursing home residents.
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Ontario extends paramedic house-call program for seniors
Pilot project employing paramedics to make health-care visits helped reduce 911 calls and emergency room visits.
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Nursing home cases highlight need for better standard of care
Personal injury lawyer Maia Bent says there needs to be attention paid to the homes and the people who work there.
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When caregivers are responsible for the family home: Some equitable solutions.
Family caregivers have a lot of responsibilities when a parent or both parents are living in the family home.
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No place like home? Investigating Ontario’s home-care shortcomings
It seems simple: keep patients at home when you can. Individuals prefer it, and it costs governments less. But home care is an underfunded, complicated system faltering in the face of skyrocketing demand.
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When does a bath become a necessity?
How many times a week should a nursing home patient get a bath?