Resident isolation, staffing remain significant concerns in Ontario long-term care centres – CBC

Ontario’s commission on why COVID-19 ravaged long-term care homes is expected to deliver its report Friday

Apr 30, 2021

For Joni Asboth’s 99-year-old father, living in a Toronto-based long term care centre has become a series of isolating lockdowns, where just one positive COVID-19 test of a staff member can mean confinement for some residents.

Indeed, she said her father John, whose room has been in and out of lockdown, hasn’t been outside since September.

“What we’re doing to the elderly at this time is incarcerating them. There’s no other word for it,” Asboth said.

On Friday, Ontario’s Long-Term Care COVID-19 Commission — which investigated how and why the virus ravaged nursing homes, and what steps were taken to prevent its spread — is set to hand over its report to the government. It will be up to the Ministry of Long-Term Care to release it.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-ontario-year-later-1.6006725

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