COVID-19 has hit long-term residential care facilities particularly hard. It’s a situation brought on in part by a lack of attention to a sector many people choose to ignore, but York University Professor Pat Armstrong, who led the 10-year project Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care, says that needs to change. Armstrong and her international team recently published the report, Re-imagining Long-term Residential Care in the COVID-19 Crisis.
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Function-focused care creates better outcomes for hospitalized seniors: York U study
TORONTO Nov. 28, 2012 – Seniors hospitalized for a serious event such as illness or injury have fewer falls, less functional decline and earlier discharge with lower costs of care if they are treated in an acute geriatric care unit where staff focus on early intervention for functional decline, according to a recent study by […]
