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New Long Term Care Standards have been released. The standards address the delivery of safe, reliable, and high-quality LTC services (HSO) and design, operation, and infection prevention and control practices in LTC homes (CSA Group).
Learn About the new National Long-Term Care Services Standard
HSO’s new standard addresses the delivery of safe, reliable, and high-quality long-term care services.
Read CAN/HSO 21001:2023 Long-Term Care Services to learn more.
The Standards Council of Canada (SCC), Health Standards Organization (HSO), and the Canadian Standards Association (CSA Group) worked collaboratively to develop two new national standards for LTC. Both standards have been shaped by the…
OTTAWA – Health Standards Organization (HSO) is proud to launch the 60-day Public Review for the new draft National Long-Term Care Services standard. We are also pleased to release the What We Heard Report #2: Findings from the National LTC Services Standard Consultation Workbooks and Town Halls.
The public review process is an opportunity for anyone to review and provide feedback on the draft standard before it is finalized and published. Members of the public are invited to provide feedback…
The Public Health Agency of Canada is pleased to share A Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Achieve – 2021 Annual Report, which was recently tabled in Parliament, and an update on our public education efforts.
2021 Report to Parliament
The 2021 Report to Parliament on Canada’s national dementia strategy provides a Canada-wide overview of some of the many efforts underway that support the strategy’s national objectives. Initiatives highlighted in this year’s report come from a variety of…
HSO’s Public Review for LTC Services Standard & Share New Consultation Report
Alongside the public review now in place for the new draft National Long-Term Care Services Standards, HSO is also releasing our What We Heard Report #2: Findings from HSO’s National LTC Standard Consultation Workbooks and Town Halls, summarizing the input from the over 1,984 individuals who participated in our Consultation Workbooks and Town Halls in Fall 2021, including around 200 residents.
The draft…
The aim of this report is to develop a comprehensive guidance with recommendations to support the mental health and well-being of people living in community residential care settings, and that could provide a framework for a new standard.
Executive Summary
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to be a global pandemic and it soon became apparent that community residential care settings, and nursing homes or long-term care (LTC) facilities in particular, were the epicentre for infection and death. Pre-pandemic systemic and structural deficiencies (such as a precarious front-line workforce fuelled by decades of deregulation, privatization, contracting out of…
The aim of this report is to develop a comprehensive guidance with recommendations to support the mental health and well-being of people living in community residential care settings, and that could provide a framework for a new standard.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Process Evaluation
Applicants are invited to apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) research program situated at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. TREC is a large, multi-disciplinary group Canadian and international researchers, clinicians, citizen representatives, and stakeholders who conduct research in the LTC sector focusing on quality of care, quality of life and end of life and quality of work life.…
The Workforce Resilience study is part of TREC’s ongoing work looking at the effects of the pandemic on the LTC workforce. This project will evaluate a breathing strategy that is known to reduce stress and improve well-being. It will be delivered with an education session about the effects of stress on the brain and body. The goal of this project is to empower care aides and nurses with tools to navigate stress in the workplace, and we hope across all areas of their lives.
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AcademyHealth today published the final recommendations report developed by the Advisory Group on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in Health Services and Policy Research. The report will help inform the development of a sustainable, action-oriented strategy to address diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field. AcademyHealth is seeking community input on the recommendations, and will use that feedback to prioritize a detailed implementation plan, to be released later this fall.
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