Neglected No More exposes deplorable state of senior care in Canada cbc.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbc.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A key message of Neglected No More is that rather than thinking about long-term care in isolation, we should build systems that care for elderly Canadians in the community, and that keep people out of long-term care as much as possible
The failures of elder care in Canada, as Picard argues, began long before the novel coronavirus arrived.
Readers may be surprised that Picard forgoes lambasting the easy villains in the devastating crisis for-profit care providers, “bad apple” care staff in service of a deeper indictment of Canada’s refusal to value elders in life as well as in death.
Ten months after we first spoke about health reporting, I reached Picard by phone in Vancouver, where he is spending the winter as an Asper Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia.
We discussed the difficulty of writing about people who often can’t speak for themselves, what accountability for these preventable deaths could look like, and how his optimism that the pandemic will be a turning point for elder care has managed to stay alight.
Opinion: When will we stop studying long-term care and start fixing it? theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.