Ontario’s long-term care is overdue for change. So what needs to happen?
by from on (#5CNH8)
Since COVID-19 first arrived in Ontario and began spreading in long-term-care homes, it shed light on an area of the health-care system that has laid broken for decades. In 2003, the Star spent a year investigating the cracks in the long-term-care system, and in years since, has kept tabs on issues of neglect, understaffing, poor wages and more. We asked residents' family members, health-care workers, lobbyists and thought leaders what one thing is that they would like to see happen in order to bring change to long-term care.