The pandemic has exposed a crisis in Canada’s care homes
Too many old people are crammed into substandard institutions
IN LATE DECEMBER the Tendercare Living Centre in Toronto became the site of an angry demonstration. Forty-eight of the home’s 200-odd residents had died from covid-19. Survivors’ relatives gathered to demand that it employ more staff. A doctor said the home had mixed infected with uninfected residents and had too little oxygen to treat the sick. She described it as a war zone. A hospital took over its management. By mid-January, 74 residents had died.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Careless behaviour”
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