What it’s like to work in long-term care during the pandemic

Thanks to the necessary 'one site' rule that many regions instituted after the pandemic outbreaks, many of these care aides have now been forced to consider retail jobs to supplement their income—a sure way to exhaust our work pool and a waste of desperately needed talent during a pandemic.

The ratio of residents to care aides can be staggering, depending on how a facility structures their staff. Photo by Georg Arthur Pflueger on Unsplash

Opinion

BY DR. CASSANDRA HOGGARD

August 27, 2020

The worst day of a COVID-19 outbreak in long-term care is the first day. There are tears. How did it get in? How did we fail? How do we tell the families? When does the media show up? There is shame, tremendous shame. Shame that we put on ourselves and that th...

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