With the need for LTC only expected to grow as Canada’s population ages, it is critical that the federal, provincial and territorial governments work together to fix these issues, starting with developing trauma-informed workplaces to address LTC workers’ mental health.

More than five years after COVID-19’s deadly sweep through LTC homes, exposing long-standing deficiencies in funding, infrastructure, infection control, staffing and working conditions, many problems remain, driving a critical staffing shortage, burning out workers and impacting resident care.

He is a research assistant with TREC, contributing to trauma-informed care projects that support continuing-care home staff and residents.

Before pursuing her graduate degree, Madeleine worked directly with children with autism and adults with developmental disabilities. She is passionate about knowledge translation and looks forward to contributing to TREC’s mission of bridging research and practice.

We have also shared results through individualized site reports with care homes, infographics with participants, descriptive reports with provincial government, and hosted regional webinars.

For more information visit our website www.arcltc.ca

Summit Event: We’re also planning an exciting event in late November: a half-day summit spotlighting racial and cultural diversity in long-term care to better understand the worker experiences.

Videos: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Heather Dicks, has received additional funding to develop a series of short animated videos sharing our research findings with a broader audience. The videos will be based on our research papers with the first video being available in the coming weeks, stay tuned!

If you are a student or know a student who would like to work with ARC LTC data, please contact arcltc@msvu.ca for more information.

Manuscripts: The team is also working on academic papers, there has been one manuscript published, two submitted, and many more in progress, including four trainee theses.

More presentations took place at the PEI Making the Connection Conference (October 29-30) and are set for the NB Health Research Symposium (November 20-21).

Conferences: Two postdoctoral fellows and three trainees travelled to Montréal where they presented results from the ARC LTC quality of work life project at the Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) conference (October 23-25).

Team meeting: In June the ARC LTC team came together in Halifax to review study findings, share ideas and identify priority areas for future analysis and dissemination.