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A strange homecoming

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How losing a parent helped shape autism research When David Mandell’s mother became sick from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he moved back to be close to his parents and start graduate school. Not the homecoming he’d expected. Mandell’s parents had been a big influence. Through them he had come to understand that race and class could affect […]
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Against their will 

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Will Ontarians be sent to LTC without choice? The Ontario government unveiled its long-awaited plan to stabilize the over-stretched health care system after a series of emergency room closures across the province. As part of that plan, the government said it would introduce legislation that would pave the way for Alternative Level of Care (ALC) […]
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Time to move?

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Evidence-based considerations For others, the need for greater assistance and care may result in the transition to a residential care facility. In Canada, it is estimated that approximately half-a-million people live in such facilities. Nursing homes, also referred to as long-term care homes, and seniors’ residences, also referred to as retirement homes or assisted living