Background: The risk of infection following a visit to the emergency department is unknown.
We explored this risk among elderly residents of long-term care facilities. Methods: We …

In August 2003, an outbreak of scabies was detected in a Canadianlong-term care facility.
The outbreak was likely associated with 2index cases, 1 involving classic scabies and the …

OBJECTIVES: Food insecurity in an important public health issue and affects 13% of Canadian
households. It is associated with poor accessibility to fresh, diverse and affordable food …

Long-term care networks may soon buckle under the weight of overwhelming demand. We
present two dynamic, large-scale mixed-integer programs for long-term care network design …

Methods Using a qualitative descriptive design, 10 participants with various cancer diagnoses
were recruited from a large cancer centre in Montreal, Quebec. Audiotaped individual …

The purpose of this study was to better understand why change initiatives succeed or fail in
long-term care organizations. Four case studies from Québec, Canada were contrasted …

Background: While antipsychotic (AP) medications are frequently used in long-term care,
current evidence suggests that the risks may offset the benefits, necessitating periodic …

BACKGROUND: Falls are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in older people. In
many long-term care (LTC) institutions, current practice focuses only on the injury …

In been ized recent countries. increasing years, That the rapidly elderly phenomenon in most
population industrial-is respon-has been increasing rapidly in most industrialized countries…

… The Evolutive Prosthetic Garden: A New Concept for Elderly Living in Nursing Facilities
Carole Labreque, BSc, CSLA, and Lucie Tremblay, RN, BSc, MSc.................... 56 …