Reading Time: 5 minutes We cannot blame COVID-19 alone for the current LTC crisis, writes Shawn Whatley
Tag: Senior care
What happens when a hospice rejects medical assistance in dying?
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘This is about the B.C. government destroying a sanctuary for dying patients who want the choice to stay in a facility where MAID is not offered’
Many questions will linger post-pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutes Now that vaccines have made it possible for the world to be free of COVID-19, what consequences of this plague can we look forward to?
Despite the alarmism, Covid-19 is not the Black Death
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of focusing on a problem concentrated in our long-term care facilities, politicians have closed vast swaths of our economy
Building quality of life into spaces for people with ‘invisible’ disabilities
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ensuring physical accessibility is only the beginning of creating places where people can ‘be who they are,’ says design consultant and PhD student Lara Pinchbeck
“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
Reading Time: 4 minutes A UN report is critical of Canada’s poor MAID safeguards for people with disabilities and their lack of access to viable MAID alternatives
Caregiving can last for decades, new research shows
Reading Time: 4 minutes Understanding different lifetime patterns of caregiving can inform supportive policies to help people cope, say U of A researchers
The overblown panic of COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes We trampled, in fear, over memory and institutions, obsessively protective and morally dismissive of dignity and human life
New guidelines help people with dementia stay safe if lost
Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A researchers tap into experiences and ideas of people living with dementia to fill public information gap
The lockdown failed our most vulnerable
Reading Time: 4 minutes Political spin to distract from the disaster in senior care centres will solve nothing. The industrial warehousing model must be questioned