{"id":228876,"date":"2020-05-28T18:13:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T22:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/podcast\/confronting-the-crisis-in-long-term-care-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:58","slug":"confronting-the-crisis-in-long-term-care-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/podcast\/confronting-the-crisis-in-long-term-care-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Confronting the crisis in long-term care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 has been a death sentence for many Canadians living or working in long-term care. The scale of this loss is overwhelming, with over 80 percent of COVID deaths in Canada linked to nursing and retirement homes.<\/p>\n<p>This crisis brings to light what many have known for years: the system is broken, and society&#8217;s most vulnerable are paying the price. Dr. Samir Sinha joins the podcast to make sense of this political and policy failure, and to call on all of us to act.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sinha is the director of geriatrics at Sinai Health System and the University Health Network in Toronto and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He\u2019s also the director of health policy research at Ryerson University\u2019s National Institute on Ageing, where you can find the <a href=\"https:\/\/ltc-covid19-tracker.ca\/\">COVID-19 long-term care tracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download for free. New episodes every other week. 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