To prevent another pandemic catastrophe, long-term care needs a long-term fix

Thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, and the fact they were first rolled out in Canada to residents of long-term care homes, it can be easy to forget just how horrific the pandemic’s toll was on senior citizens.

During the first wave in March and April of 2020, 80 per cent of COVID-19 deaths in Canada involved people in nursing homes and seniors’ residences. In the second wave, the percentage barely dropped, to 77 per cent, according to the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) in Toronto.

To date, 15,535 out of 28,428 COVID-19 deaths in Canada – 55 per cent – have involved LTC residents, according to the NIA’s COVID-19 tracker.

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