Zeba Taj would often come home sobbing after a shift at the long-term care home in Ottawa where she worked for three years. If the people who are in a given long-term care facility have no commonality of life experience, it's a hugely isolating place to be. The Ontario government has launched an independent commission into why COVID-19 crippled the province's long-term care facilities, killing more than 1,800 residents. Urquhart believes it's now time to take those gains and apply them to the long-term care sector. "[Long-term care homes] have very constrained parameters in which they are operating, and I think we've seen through COVID-19 some of those fault lines," she said.

Source: CBC News August 25, 2020 07:52 UTC