Tag: Home Care
In Canada, as in the United States, a large share of COVID deaths during the first wave occurred in nursing homes.See Ontario Ministry of Health (2022a) for Ontario and Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec (2022) for Québec. As a result, the pandemic shed light on lax infection control practices and lack of staff…
Medicaid pays for care for six out of 10 nursing home residents. To reduce the program’s costs, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) encouraged states to expand the care that people over 65 can receive in their homes or through community organizations. The hope was that they would delay or – even better for them –…
