TORONTO – An investigation has found that reports of resident-on-resident abuse have risen sharply in Ontario nursing homes. Reports have increased from an average of four per day in 2006 to nine a day in 2016, despite only a small increase in the number of residents – to 78,000 in 2016 from 75,000 in 2006.
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OTTAWA – A camera placed in the nursing-home room of Diana Pepin’s elderly mother to monitor her hygiene gave her quite a shock: it recorded a personal support worker verbally abusing her mom: “Die, die you bitch. You’ve got to die now.”
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TORONTO – Tunstall Healthcare, a world leader in connected healthcare, and Telus Health, an organization committed to driving healthcare efficiencies and enhanced patient experiences through the use of advanced technology, announced they will work together to provide Canadians with better access to healthcare through the Tunstall ICP Integrated Care Platform.
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OTTAWA – The AGE-WELL Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE), Bruyère Research Institute and Carleton University are pleased to announce the launch of the newest national innovation hub, which advances the development of sophisticated sensor systems that address mobility and memory challenges among older people.
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TORONTO – Ontario will launch a new registry that will provide patients and families with easy-to-access information about their personal support workers (PSWs). The registry will include information such as education and training credentials, and adherence to a code of conduct. It will also provide a transparent complaints process for patients and families to report and resolve complaints involving PSWs.
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Caring for seniors at home is about to get a whole lot smarter. With recent census data indicating one-person households surpass all other types of living situations in Canada, in part due to longer life expectancy, the need to help aging Canadians maintain independence and quality of life is stronger than ever.
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MONTREAL – AlayaCare, a Canadian-owned software company that just celebrated its third birthday, is poised to grow right alongside the home care industry it supports after receiving $2.4 million in another successful funding round from Quebec-based Fonds Innovexport.
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On a peaceful summer afternoon earlier this year, London, Ont., resident Jim Purchase was getting ready to head out to the movies with his wife when he started to feel “kind of funky.” Purchase, 67, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure in 2002 and ended up in hospital multiple times since then due to tightness in his chest and difficulty breathing.
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OTTAWA – The four long-term care facilities run by the City of Ottawa have been found non-compliant with legislation governing long-term care homes more than 200 times over the past five years, including numerous incidents of patient abuse, according to a review by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper.
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OTTAWA – A study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has found that up to 30 percent of seniors entering residential care could be supported in home care, given the right mix of community services and in-home care.
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