'Twenty seven deaths from choking, 100 cases of abuse, neglect'
The report released by the military this week on the state of several long-term care homes in Canada was grim: cockroaches, underqualified and overtaxed front-line workers, no personal protective equipment, residents choking on food. Patients dying.
Susan Braedley, an associate professor in the School of Social Work and the Department of Health Sciences at Carleton University an co-investigator of a long-term study on reimagining long-term care, says there’s a dire need for a new long-term care model. And these practices have been shown to lead to a higher risk of death. In the 2015 report, Hospitalization and Mortality Rates in Long-Term Care Facilities: Does For-Profit Status Matter?, researchers found that one year after admission and before discharge, 11.7 per cent of residents in privately-owned long-term care facilities died and 25.7 per cent had at least one hospitalization.
“This represents about 1.3 incidents a day and includes 27 cases of unexpected deaths for reasons such as choking or aspiration and about 100 cases of abuse, neglect or improper treatment of a resident by home staff related to food that resulted in harm or risk of harm to the resident,” reads the report.
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