This Matters

What happened with long-term care homes and what comes next?


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COVID-19 has exacerbated the fault line within this country's long-term care facilities. Underfunded, overcrowded and with less oversight, these facilities were ripe for the kind of disaster that is unfolding in them across the country. As residents and healthcare workers die, beyond talk about fixing what is happening now, there seems to finally be an appetite from government leaders to try and tackle the problem head on. Raju Mudhar speaks with two of the Star's Investigative reporters about this issue. Jesse McLean worked on a project looking at long term care homes and the first 100 days of COVID-19 in North America. It also looked back at previous government's recommendations on what should happen in this type of emergency. In addition, Raju talks to Moira Welsh, who has been covering care for the elderly and long-term care facilities for much of her career. She has been speaking to residents and front-line workers to really see what's happening on the ground in these facilities right now.

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