Moira Welsh

Facilities warn residents who are away for more than 21 days may not be able to immediately return.

The association that represents non-profit homes said funeral homes have said it will step up and offer bags for homes that have none left.

Health ministers in charge of Ontario’s long-term care homes, where 77,000 people live, have long promised change. No more abuse, they’d say. We will fix the system. Ontario is better than this.

Beginning July 22 in Ontario, up to two people — family or friends — can schedule a visit inside long-term-care homes if they can attest to a negative COVID test within the previous 14 days.

The $21 million in federal aid went to the home-care subsidiary ParaMed. Critics say taxpayers are bankrolling the parent company’s wealthy shareholders.

Inside Scarborough’s Tendercare home, where more than 100 COVID cases are reportedly active among residents, dozens of staff have tested positive and two physicians and the executive director were sick with the virus.

Amid the bleak headlines, Moira Welsh tells the story of Susie, who has Alzheimer’s, and hated the town-hall-style day program where she was dropped off. Then came a moment of inspiration.

For weeks Natalie Babineau’s daughters had complained to nursing home staff about the putrid smell coming from the 93-year-old woman. When a nurse finally peeled back the bandages, they finally realized the extent of her suffering. Part three of Natalie’s story.

An Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) survey sent to 3,300 members reveals devastating impacts the pandemic has had on long-term care nurses.

The report said that unless there are deep reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, the global surface temperatures will rise.

Real reform of long-term care would enable the elderly to live with purpose, and provide workers with meaning and autonomy in their jobs, Moira Welsh writes.

Omicron’s swift spread through long-term care is crushing a workforce worn from two years of COVID, with some workers leaving for good. And residents are paying the price.

The University Health Network’s NORC Innovation Centre is helping residents launch a Naturally Occurring Retirement Community with supports for aging at home.

If mandatory and properly funded, the standards could help residents live with individual choice in activities, schedules and lifestyle, including sexual identity.

If mandatory and properly funded, the standards could help residents live with individual choice in activities, schedules and lifestyle, including sexual identity.

“COVID in the House of Old,” which tells the stories of people who died in long-term care, is touring across Canada.

To Lina Zatzman, the passing decades are irrelevant as she prepares to go skydiving with an 80-year-old friend, Mary Kelcey. Staying active and cultivating friendships are key to a happy third act, say Oshawa’s Zatzman and Kelcey.

A report found one in four Canadians aged 50 and older said they do not currently earn enough money to adequately cover financial priorities.

A new study found that many older adults do not receive palliative care at home and suggested that new ways of identifying those in their final six months of life,

As Canada shifts toward “super-aged” status, it needs a national strategy on loneliness, advocates say.