Policy prescriptions for combating dengue fever tend to focus on addressing environmental
and social conditions of poverty. However, while poverty has long been considered a …

Background: In Ontario, Canada, nearly all home care patients are assessed with a brief
clinical assessment (interRAI Contact Assessment [interRAI CA]) on admission. Our objective …

Outcomes of adverse events in home care are varied and multifactorial. This study tested a
framework combining two health measures to identify home care recipients at higher risk of …

We examine recipients of publicly funded ongoing care in a single Ontario jurisdiction who
reside in three different settings: long-stay home care patients in private homes and …

In Ontario, new home care clients are screened with the interRAI Contact Assessment and
only those expected to require longer‐term services receive the comprehensive RAI‐Home …

Objective The objective was to compare home care episode, standardised assessment, and
service patterns in Ontario’s publicly funded home care system during the first wave of the …

During the pandemic, the interRAI COVID-19 Vulnerability Screener (CVS) was used to
identify community-dwelling older adults or adults with disabilities at risk of negative outcomes …

Results: Within 6 months, 4.9% of the sample had died, 6.5% were readmitted to any
Ontario CCC facility, and 13.7% showed symptoms of new possible depression or failure to …

… Turcotte PhD b , Chi-Ling Joanna Sinn PhD b c , Katherine Berg PhD d , John N. Morris
PhD e , John P. Hirdes PhD b … CLJ Sinn, H. Sutlan, LA Turcotte, C. McArthur, JP Hirdes …

Background Functional decline is common following acute hospitalization and is associated
with hospital readmission, institutionalization, and mortality. People with functional decline …