long-term care

British Columbia's seniors advocate welcomes newly announced federal funding for seniors' health care, and says she's particularly excited about the promise to support seniors at home.

The federal health minister says he expects British Columbia and Ottawa to soon reach a flexible one-on-one agreement that improves health services for people needing care and those who provide that service.

Proposed new standards for long-term care issued by a panel of experts at the Health Standards Organization on Tuesday say residents should get at least four hours of direct care a day and workers must be paid more.

A report by British Columbia's seniors advocate says the province ranks last in Canada in providing key financial support to elders, with 84 per cent of its low-income seniors sometimes running out of money to buy food.

Quebec's decision allowing long-term care centres to house up to four residents per room will put people at risk without freeing up hospital beds, according to a patients rights advocate.

Jane Sustrik remembers the sense of fear hanging over her in those early months of the pandemic.

Lucy DeFilippis is a light sleeper, so when her phone rings in the middle of the night, she wakes quickly, ready to face the next crisis. 

Health Canada approved Pfizer's antiviral treatment for COVID-19 on Monday, January 17, 2022, which could help cut pressure on the health-care system by preventing high-risk patients from ending up in the hospital.

The expert spearheading new draft national standards for long-term care says they must strike a balance between residents' safety and their quality of life.

Over the past few weeks, Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government has begun implementing policies former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne boldly committed to more than four years ago, writes Andrew Perez.

Forty per cent of British Columbia's long-term care staff who were surveyed by the province's advocate for seniors said they went into work at least once in the past year feeling sick, a report reveals.

Social workers, sheriffs and administrative assistants are among an estimated 30,000 government employees in British Columbia who will have to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing their job.

The three main party leaders are in Eastern and Central Canada today, September 15, 2021, a day after a new poll suggested the already close race is getting even tighter.

A group of major Canadian long-term care operators will require all staff be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall, with those who don't take the shots being asked to go on unpaid leave.

A surge in COVID-19 cases spurred by the Delta variant is prompting British Columbia health officials to enact mandatory vaccine requirements for all staff and volunteers at long-term care and assisted living sites.