Reading Time: 3 minutes Unbefriended,’ these isolated seniors require more help to safeguard their access to basic daily needs, including companionship, and improve their quality of life
Author: Stephanie Chamberlain
Stephanie is a first year PhD student at the University of Alberta. She completed her Masters in Gerontology at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. Stephanie currently works with Translating Research in Elder Care on the social network analysis project, which is mapping advice-seeking networks among senior leaders in long-term care. Her PhD work will focus on documenting the prevalence and experience of unbefriended elderly, those who are under guardianship or public trusteeship in long-term care in the Western provinces.
Who’s caring for the nursing home carers?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nursing home care aides are burning out but measures can be taken to improve their work conditions. And that will result in better care for their patients