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Episode 4 – Neglected No More: André Picard talks about COVID in long term care facilities

André Picard

(May 28, 2021) Canada’s award-winning health reporter André Picard has just written a book about it called Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic, which expertly lays out what can and must be done to improve the state of care for our elders.

The deplorable state of so many of the country’s long term care facilities was fully revealed by the coronavirus pandemic.  At the end of September 2020, close to 10,000 people had died from the coronavirus. More than 80% of them were elderly people living in long-term care facilities. The conditions were so bad that, in Ontario and Quebec, the Canadian military was called upon to help mitigate the disaster.  The conditions they found were appalling. And their experience demonstrated that, despite numerous studies, coroners’ reports, and inquests over the past two decades, our institutional care of the elderly is often unspeakably inhumane.

In Neglected No More, 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.

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