Healthy Seniors. What Should Governments Do?
We have a growing population of elderly Moms and Dads getting acute care repeatedly for their chronic conditions, many of them languishing in hospital beds, all for lack of the ...
Healthcare reform needs citizens' voice
Ordinary citizens and governments are left in the dark because there is a shortage of useful information about health system performance. Citizens are unable to get timely information about waiting ...
Advance directives, dignity and care-giving: a voice for frail elderly Canadians
We need our politicians and health professionals alike to confront the obvious need for shareable health/medical records, including with the people to whom those records refer. And we must tackle ...
Home Care’s Tommy Douglas Moment?
Home care has moved steadily up the policy agenda, and onto the radar of our citizens. Still, in Ontario, home and community care represents only about 4 per cent of ...
Many hospitals don’t do enough to support health workers after an adverse event
In the case of possible errors, “physicians often harbour visions of disastrous personal consequences, such as the loss of reputation…or revocation of their medical licence.” In severe cases, the person ...
