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Keegan Quinn -
August 26, 2017 |
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Javi Fenoy -
July 11, 2017 |
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Heidi Wiebe -
June 29, 2017 |
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Sam Rakowski -
March 29, 2017 |
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Hugh Armstrong -
March 19, 2017 |
| This report is fine as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. Staffing requirements to meet the future care needs of seniors requires more attention to health care aides/assistants, to unpaid carers, and to skill/staff mixes than found on pp. 17, 20, 40 and 42. As Harrington et al. (your n. 48) point out, a significant majority of care staff in North American and British nursing homes are non-nurses. A widely accepted standard for nursing home staffing levels is 2.8 nurse aide hours/resident/day (hrd) as distinct from nurse 1.3 hrd. Then there is the question of unpaid carers at home, and to a lesser extent in nursing homes. It is admittedly difficult to assemble solid, comprehensive data, even for nurses. The effort must however be made, and made much more broadly than in the report, if we are to be successful in analyzing future needs. For one such effort, see P. Armstrong et al., "Critical to Care" (University of Toronto Press, 2008). |
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Jill Campbell -
March 16, 2017 |
| Great report and highlights the continued need for planning and change |
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