Winnipeg Free Press
WHY was the COVID-19 pandemic so devastating for older people in personal care homes? What can be done to prevent it in the future? And what is the role of faith groups?
WHY was the COVID-19 pandemic so devastating for older people in personal care homes? What can be done to prevent it in the future? And what is the role of faith groups?
Tackling those questions is the goal of "Who Cares? The Elderly Among Us," an online forum Wednesday sponsored by Canadian Mennonite University.
"It’s not that cracks in our care for the elderly weren’t there already," said Heather Campbell-Enns, a professor of psychology at CMU who is hosting the forum. "We’ve known about them for decades. The pandemic exposed them."