“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"
long-term care
“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”
