Why Canada needs to improve residential care for aging populations, and why we aren’t doing it

Staffing level is the most critical issue in providing quality care.
Health Minister Jane Philpott, pictured in this file photo on the Hill. Findings to date demonstrate that staffing level is the most critical issue in providing quality care, writes Susan Braedley.
Older people and their families often view long-term residential care as the last and worst resort for care, while policy makers see it as an expensive problem with a propensity for scandal. Provincial governments have been strategizing how to keep frail older persons out of residential care via a s...

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