living in long-term care

long-term care home

This long-term care home radically changed the way it operates. Residents say it’s working

Home received extra funding to make the care more resident-centred Like so many people contemplating long-term care, Louis Capozzi said he was nervous about what he would find when he started looking at homes. “I heard so many awful things about, you know, people getting not well taken care of, laying in bed, needing to be …

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Woman with disabilities

Woman with disabilities nears medically assisted death after futile bid for affordable housing

A 31-year-old Toronto woman who uses a wheelchair is nearing final approval for a medically assisted death request after a fruitless bid to secure an affordable apartment that doesn’t worsen her chronic illnesses. The looming approval for death surprisingly, makes her grateful. “Relieved and elated,” Denise said in an interview. “I was scared that they …

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Family of long term disable

How 4 generations of Korean-Canadian women reunited on an emotional Thanksgiving

The Lees met wih 91-year-old Bunim Suk, the family matriarch, for the first time in 18 months For many families, this year marked the first Thanksgiving they could safely spend with their loved ones living in long-term care homes due to the loosening of pandemic restrictions. For the Lee family, it was a special one. Four generations of …

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