In long-term care, we typically look to obvious, and often expensive, solutions: more staff, more facilities, more beds. Funding high-dose flu shots for all Canadians 65 and over would keep thousands out of hospitals and long-term care homes every year. About one in six people live independently (without any homecare) when a single negative event ends up forcing them into long-term care. Many of them were living independently before becoming ill, but leave the hospital not to go home but to enter long-term care. While flu shots aren’t 100 per cent effective, 47 per cent of individuals vaccinated with a high-dose flu shot are protected from influenza.

Source: National Post February 06, 2018 01:18 UTC