Changing resident and staff populations, along with political economic reforms, call for new insights into the kinds of skills needed to work in long-term residential care (LTRC). This paper explores the skills of three occupational groups in LTRC: direct care workers, nurses, and doctors. We ...
Objectives: To identify the tuberculosis (TB) skin-testing practices of long-term care facilities for the elderly in Toronto, Ontario. Design: A telephone survey using a 25-item questionnaire. Setting: Twenty-nine nursing homes (NHs) and 26 Homes for the Aged (HFAs) in metropolitan Toronto....
In addition, psychiatric ED patients experience long wait times, only to receive care that is more costly, less intense, and less focused on long-term rehabilitation than mental healthcare provided in non-emergency settings (Cooper & Masi, 2007; Dolan & Fein, 2011; Slade et al., 2010). ...
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Geoffrey Ryan Physics Department, University of Bath, Claverton Down, UK Hendrik van Eerten Department of Astronomy, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China Zi-Gao Dai Kavli Institut...
We sought to develop a method to estimate the risk of death from long-term exposure to PM2.5 and the distribution of its components, namely: sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, organic mass, black carbon, and mineral dust. We decomposed PM2.5 exposure into the sum of total concentration and the ...
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Design concentrations would be developed by default from use of the advanced data period; the NWS long-term analysis would be used to assess whether the year modeled was representative. This approach is a good example of the kind of analysis that could be more objectively carried out during an...
Investigation of climate change impacts on long-term care facility occupants. City Environ. Interact. 2022, 13, 100077. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] MLTC. 2020. Long-Term Care Staffing Study. Ministry of Long-Term Care, Ontario. Available online: https://files.ontario.ca/mltc-long-term-care...
As a slow crisis, shrinkage is a situation where if actions are not taken to change things, a downward spiral or a long-term decline could happen. The complex, long-term nature of this crisis underlines the importance and potential of strategic approach. However, the conceptualisation of develo...
strategies refer to the local level as the one requiring action to promote effective community involvement and post-construction support. The framework helps to conceptualize what we called an enabling environment for decision-making, and thus, the achievement of the long-term sustainability of water ...