Current Issues
(The articles below have appeared in recent newsletters.)
Continuing Problems in Ontario LTC Homes
A Fresh Approach to Delivering Quality
Questions to Ask Your Provincial Candidate
Monitoring Medications for Seniors
Update on the Residents First Initiative
The Long-term Care Quality Inspection Program
Drugs in the Elderly: Recommendations to Ontario's Chief Coroner
It's time to address staffing issues
Long-term care residents identify their top issues
Meet the founder of Concerned Friends
30th Anniversary Celebration a Resounding Success
President's Annual Report
Quality Health Care: Attainable and Sustainable in Canada
Advancing Quality in Ontario's LTC Homes
New Inspection Process Under Way in LTC Homes
Support for Residents with Complex and Challenging Behaviours
Funding System Update
Ontario Trillium Foundation Grant Update
Concerned Friends receives grant from Ontario Trillium Foundation
Residents' Bill of Rights Expanded
Update on Concerned Friends activities: March 2010
Recommendations to improve medications management in LTC homes
Family Council Day: June 12, 2010
Good news for retirement home residents
Welcoming all communities in long-term care
Rules and regulations in long-term care
Report on quality in long-term care
A 10-year mental health and addictions strategy
Restraint: A case study
Best practice in long-term care more than just education, says expert
Changes Affecting How Your Long-Term Care Home is Monitored
When A Resident Becomes Abusive
The Role of Occupational Therapists in Long-Term Care
Concerned Friends 2008-2009 Annual Report
Freda Hannah receives Ontario Senior Achievement Award
A deadly case of chronic constipation
News from the performance improvement and compliance branch
Task force on medication management formed
Shirlee Sharkey's report on long-term care homes
A thank-you to our special donors
Ombudsman to investigate monitoring of long-term care homes
Myth-Busting: The Medication Issue
Registered Dietitians: Promoting Health
Convalescent Care Program
Diversity in Action: Tool Kit
Preventing pressure ulcers
Concerned Friends diary 2008
Advocacy stories
Spreading the word at the Don Mills Kiwanis Club
Nutrition in Long-Term Care
Long-term care residents and emergency rooms: A dangerous combination?
Daily food allowance increased
Reorganizing Ontario's health care system
Common assessment tool benefts LTC residents
Initiatives in long-term care: An update
Day in the life of a personal support worker
Embracing diversity
Smoke-Free Ontario Act draws fire
Comments on the proposed Long-Term Care Act, Bill 140
Impact of Smoke-Free Ontario Act on long-term care residents
Oral care for residents
Recognizing diversity: The Tamil Wing at Extendicare Scarborough
Consent and access under the Personal Health Information Act
A tribute to the pioneers of Concerned Friends on its 25th anniversary
National program aims at preventing abuse and neglect
Abuse and neglect in long-term care
Ask a dietitian
Elderly folks lack adequate levels of Vitamin D
Many injuries in long-term care are preventable: Canada-U.S. study
Pain Patches: A Cautionary Tale
Pressure ulcers can be prevented
Aging At Home, or In A Home?
Progress Report on Commitments made by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Comments on the Plan for Long-Term Care in Ontario
Nurse practitioners needed
Dental hygienists needed
Spotlight on ageism
Compassion, flexibility needed
Long-term care staff "emotionally exhausted": study
Board of Directors
