Janice Keefe

TL;DR: Social vulnerability has important independent influence on older adults’ health though relationships between contributing variables are complex and do not lend themselves well to fragmentation into a small number of discrete factors.

TL;DR: The report addresses the research context and policy environment in Canada’s LTC sector before COVID-19 and then summarizes the existing knowledge base for integrated solutions to challenges that exist in the L TC sector, and outlines vulnerabilities exposed because of CO VID-19.

TL;DR: This literature reinforces the centrality of the family in caring for its elderly members, regardless of their place of residence, and disputes the myth that family members abandon their elderly relatives following admission to a ltc facility.

TL;DR: Investigating managerial care amongst a large sample of carers shows that managerial care is common, distinct from other types of care, a meaningful construct, and that most care-givers provide both managerial and direct care.

TL;DR: Caregivers’ personal health emerged as a key area of need, while provision of information was identified as aKey area of support.