Topics About 'Nursing Homes'.

That the reason why COVID got into the nursing home is because staff brought it in while coming into work. It did not come from patients bringing it to the nursing homes. I assume that the patients coming in to the nursing home were new admits, ...

What happens when your parents get older and can no longer care for themselves? What happens if a catastrophic event occurs? They fall, break a hip and can't go back to their previous living arrangement? Yikes! What do you do? Okay, so you have decid...

I was wondering, do you think that countries that do more elder care in family settings, rather than institutional ones, will fare better in this crisis? I read today, on a mainstream news outlet, that in some states 50% of the fatalities from the Co...

When the pandemic started, I remember hearing talk about either building “field hospital” type structures for care and recovery, or repurposing hotel rooms, etc. Did any of this ever happen? The reason I’m asking is there’s been a lot of talk about...

I’m in Canada, and the healthcare system gets its money from the government. That’s resulted in conflicts of interest in the past, government passes laws removing union powers because contract talks aren’t going well. They don’t hold back because of ...