long-term care

“I’d break down in tears as soon as I got home”: Why this nurse left the profession for good

"I was skipping all of my lunches and breaks, and I still couldn't get everything done"

“Two weeks after I started my job in long-term care, I tested positive”: a PSW tells her story

"I lost one co-worker to Covid and I know many more who tested positive"

How Ontario’s long-term care homes became houses of horror

Disease. Starvation. Staff walkouts: a damning portrait of a system in chaos

“I’ve seen people dancing on their balconies”: This nurse and saxophonist plays outdoor concerts for locked-down seniors’ homes

When Ivgeni Kriger moved from Israel to Toronto in 2016, he combined his two passions: music and nursing

We got married outside my 96-year-old grandmother’s nursing home window

Inside an al fresco micro wedding at a Korean nursing home

“I know nothing about my dad’s final moments. Was he scared? Was he in pain?”: What it’s like to lose a parent in a long-term care facility

“In the span of two hours I found out that he was in the hospital, then that he was on oxygen and, finally, that he'd died"

“I can’t ask the staff to do something I won’t do myself”: When his facility had a Covid outbreak, this long-term care CEO stepped up to nurse patients himself

“The first day I went to work in the dementia ward, I wanted to throw up. I was scared shitless”

“This is unlike any work I’ve done. You can’t even stop to grieve”: Why a retired homicide detective and his son are volunteering at a long-term care facility

“Of the 80 workers who were usually there, only eight remained”

“I would move mountains to see him”: A Toronto family borrowed a bucket truck to visit their grandfather through a third-floor hospital window

“My grandfather’s room faces a parking lot. We decided to lift my mom up the side of the building”

“You can’t give someone a bath from six feet away”: What it’s like to work at a long-term care facility right now

“Early on in the pandemic, there was a lot of emphasis placed on preparing hospitals, but not for preparing long-term care homes”