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Posted: Apr 26, 2021 6:00 AM CT | Last Updated: April 26
Lori Hildebrandt and her dad, Rudy Pankratz, 86, enjoy a sunny day outside his Winnipeg nursing home last summer. Hildebrandt says she s hardly seen her father since the COVID-19 pandemic hit because visiting hours have been reduced at Bethania Mennonite Personal Care Home.(Submitted by Lori Hildebrandt)
People living in personal care homes have seen a reduction in quality of life since the pandemic hit. Programming has been cancelled and now families say they aren t able to visit loved ones as often as they would like.
The vast majority of personal care homes (PCHs) in the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority surveyed by CBC 14 out of 15 have reduced visiting hours since the pandemic hit.
Hannaford supermarkets say they’re no longer sending any food waste to landfills
Hannaford store manager Carl Provencher shows one of the bins where they collect food waste, some still in packaging, to be taken to Agri-Cycle of Maine to be processed during a tour on Wednesday. GEOFF FORESTER photos / Monitor staff
Geno Gervais of Agri-Cycle loads the bins of food waste in their specially-made truck for the transport to their facility in Maine on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
A sign in the back of the Hannafordâs in Manchester telling employees to wrap up food waste for bins for Agri-Cycle on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. GEOFF FORESTER Monitor staff
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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.