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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Picard, André, 1960-     Subjects     Older people -- Care -- Canada.     Long-term care facilities -- Canada.     Older people -- Home care -- Canada.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Picard, André, 1960-       by title:      Neglected no more : ...       by call number:      362.60971 P586n     Search the Web     Picard, André, 1960-     Older people -- Care -- Canada.     Long-term care facilities -- Canada.     Older people -- Home care -- Canada.       MARC Display

Neglected no more : the urgent need to improve the lives of Canada's elders in the wake of a pandemic / André Picard. by Picard, André, 1960- Random House Canada, 2021. Call #: 362.60971 P586n Subjects Older people -- Care -- Canada.   Long-term care facilities -- Canada.   Older people -- Home care -- Canada. ISBN:  9780735282247 (pbk.) Description:  208 p. ; 20 cm. Summary:  "With empathy, clarity and hard-won insight, veteran health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of Canada's eldercare crisis, laid bare by the ravages of Covid-19 and offers an urgently needed presciption for a broken system. In this timely new book, esteemed health reporter André Picard reveals the full extent of the crisis in eldercare, and offers an urgently needed prescription to fix a broken system. When Covid-19 spread through seniors' residences across Canada, the impact was horrific. Along with widespread illness and a devastating death toll, the situation exposed a decades-old crisis: the shocking systemic neglect towards our elders. Called in to provide emergency care in some of the hardest-hit facilities in Ontario and Quebec, the military issued damning reports of what they encountered. And yet, the failings that were exposed -- unappetizing meals, infrequent baths, overmedication, physical abuse and inadequate personal care -- have persisted for years in these institutions. In Time to care, André Picard takes a hard look at how we came to embrace mass institutionalization, and lays out what can and must be done to improve the state of care for our elders, a highly vulnerable population with complex needs and little ability to advocate for themselves. Picard shows that the entire eldercare system -- fragmented, underfunded and unsupported -- is long overdue for a fundamental rethink. We need to find ways to ensure seniors can age gracefully in the community for longer, with supportive home care and respite for family caregivers, and ensure that long-term care homes are not warehouses of isolation and neglect. Our elders deserve nothing less."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.60971 P586n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.60971 P586n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 362.60971 P586n Adult books Checked out Jul 17, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.60971 P586n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 362.60971 P586n Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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