
Editorial January 20, 2025
The public has, for over forty years, been barraged with horror stories in long-term care institutions. But nothing seems to ever change for the better.

Research during the pandemic showed that a handful of chain-operated nursing homes had the highest death rates in Ontario. Yet when it came time to make funding decisions, the Ontario government inexplicably chose to expand the for-profit institutional sector rather than non-profit assisted living programs that would have offered integrated care to elders in their own homes and communities. The worst operators often received more beds.
The public has a right to ask why.
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