Subject:
COVID19
- resources
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:00:54
-0400
From: Agnes
<agnes.warda@gmail.com>
Hello,
Nowa
strona informująca o kontaktach, m. innymi w
języku polskim. Zgodne z ostatnimi
wypowiedziami i potwierdzone
podczas telekonferencji z politykami ciągle
czekamy na szczyt zachorowań.
Nasze
grupa KMC ward 9 przygotowuje list do
polityków i organizacji celem poprawy opieki
and seniorami. Nie wszyscy
muszą koniecznie przebywać w
zorganizowanych placówkach wiec opieka domowa
powinna być wzmocniona finansowo. Nasz PM się
trochę na ten
temat wypowiadał podobnie jak
premier Ford oboje obiecują dodatkowe
środki finansowe. Teraz jest czas żeby
się tego domagać.
Jeśli
ktokolwiek rozważa umieszczenie członka
rodziny bądź chce się przenieść do
placówki zorganizowanej jest nowa forma
oceny sytuacji, załączam artykuł i
adresy poniżej.
Dr
Theresa Tam, główny urzędnik ds. Zdrowia
publicznego w kraju, powiedziała, że ponad 90
procent pacjentów,którzy zmarli na wirusa, ma
ponad 60 lat, a połowa z nich żyła w ośrodkach
opieki
długoterminowej.Rząd rozważa pomoc
federalną,która by używała Kanadyjski
Czerwony Krzyż, wojsko lub ochotników.W czwartek
1048 osób zmarło z powodu COVID-19 w Kanadzie,
modele przewidują obecnie 1200 i 1620 zgonów do
21 kwietnia.
--
A.W.
Ottawa
researchers helping retirement, long-term care
residents decide if they should leave during
COVID-19
A tool has been developed by The
Ottawa Hospital and uOttawa, to help seniors
assess their current situations.
As
many Ottawa retirement residences and long-term
care homes deal with COVID-19
outbreaks, local researchers have launched
an assessment tool to help families which are
discussing whether or not to pull their loved ones
from their current living envoironments.
Researchers
from The Ottawa Hospital (TOH), the University of
Ottawa, the Champlain Local Health Integration
Network and the National Institute of Ageing have
helped develop two decision aids: one focused on
retirement and assisted living homes, and another
on long-term care and nursing homes.
Officials
from TOH say the retirement
home tool is relevant nationally,
while the long-term
care tool applies to Ontario-only at
this point.
"We
know that many residents and their loved ones are
already having these conversations, so we wanted
to give them tools to help them clearly think
through their options," said Dr. Dawn Stacey,
senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and
professor at the University of Ottawa. "These
decision aids walk them through questions like,
what care do they need and who will provide it? Is
there space in the home where they can
self-isolate for two weeks? Are there grab-bars in
the bathroom? It’s not a simple decision, and
there are many things to consider."
TOH
says decision aids normally take months or years
to develop and test. Understanding the urgency of
this particular decision, the team used its
well-tested template and assembled these new
decision aids in about a week.
"The
creation of these decision aids comes at a very
critical point in this pandemic for nursing and
retirement homes residents and their families,"
said Dr. Samir Sinha, director of geriatrics at
Sinai Health System and the University Health
Network in Toronto and Director of Health Policy
Research - National Institute on Ageing.
"Especially
for those in Quebec and Ontario where over 1,000
homes are in outbreak, families are understandably
asking if it would be better to be cared for and
supported outside one of these homes during the
pandemic," the doctor expalined. "This is not an
easy decision to make during a stressful time and
certainly not one that anyone should make without
having the information they need to make the right
choice for them. As the Ontario Ministry of
Long-Term Care has made it easier for families to
do what is right for them in these situations,
these decision aids will help families better
navigate these incredibly difficult decisions they
may be considering."
While
these decision aids have not been validated in
research studies, they are based on a template
that has been tested in multiple studies.
These tools can be found on The
Ottawa Hospital Decision Aids website. Any
user feedback should be directed to decisionaid@ohri.ca
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Czwartek, 23 kwietnia 2020
Eleanor Mary Henoch (nee
Watson-Wemyss), 
Maciej
Jabłoński
