Excerpt from The Star: (click for entire article)
Ontario has strong legislation to care for and protect 77,000 seniors in its nursing homes. Now here’s the bad news: it’s “not enough to eliminate abuse and neglect in all long-term care homes.”
Indeed, that finding comes from a task force created in the aftermath of a Star investigation into abuse in nursing homes, which uncovered the shocking rape of a 71-year-old woman.
The group’s 18 recommendations, released in a report last week, range from increasing the role of residents and families in the operation of nursing homes to hiring more staff. That Health Minister Deb Matthews did not jump up and commit to fund additional staff in Ontario’s 634 long-term care homes is little surprise. She is struggling to keep health expenditures down in the face of a $15-billion provincial deficit.


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