Major Canadian survey calls for new national long-term-care standards featuring emotion-based care

New national long-term-care standards must create homes staffed by “caring, compassionate and competent” workers focused on injecting life into residents’ final years, a survey of 16,000 Canadians overwhelmingly concluded.

Results of the survey released Friday by the Health Standards Organization — with 70 per cent of respondents from Ontario — called for “emotion-based care that emphasizes social connection (rather than the completion of tasks).”

Opinions collected through detailed questionnaires between March 31 and July 31 will help inform the organization’s new “National LTC Services Standard,” which will be open for review early next year and finalized by the fall, said the report, called “What We Heard.”

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