COVID in the House of Old
COVID-19 made Canada the ultimate grim reaper among the nations of the Global North. Why? Because 82% of our first-wave deaths were vulnerable elderly residents of long-term care facilities. And, yes, you do need to know more about this. Reviewing the pandemic’s first 20 months, and delving into a cornucopia of eldercare issues, host Megan J. Davies talks to an eclectic cast of characters: a journalist who set out to keep a tally of the deaths and ended up a Go-Fund-Me star, a nurse in charge of infection control at Toronto’s largest public care facility, a resident who rebelled against being shut inside, a gerontologist who was born in an old age home, a sociologist who has spent a decade searching for the best in eldercare, and a public artist committed to moving grief out of the Kleenex box and into the community.
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Episodes
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
COVID in the house of old has spent the last five episodes looking at how eldercare failed Canadian seniors in the COVID-19 pandemic and how a history of privatization, austerity, and neglect allowed that to happen. This episode looks at the future of eldercare. Is there a better way to provide care to some of the most vulnerable populations in Canada?
Hosted by Megan Davies. Music by Ferron and Hiroki Tanaka
Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 2022
How do we make sense of the profound levels of grief brought on by the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic? This episode talks to artists and academics to dive into grief and how we can memorialize those we've lost.
Hosted by Megan Davies
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Music by Hiroki Tanaka
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
COVID in the House of old episode 4 takes a closer look at care both in eldercare and more broadly. Through decades of neglect and privatization the long term care system has made it extremely difficult to provide good care.
Music: Tom Upjohn and Mara Nesrallah
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
COVID-19 showed to Canadians the complete lack of rights that exist in eldercare but these issues have been here long before COVID.
WebsiteMusic: Kieran Smyth+Mingjia Chen
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Few understand how the colonial heritage of the English workhouse imposes itself on today’s eldercare residences. British colonizers brought the punitive workhouse model to Canada where it rests alongside insane asylums, prisons, and residential schools. Eventually turning into age old homes.
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Music: Kohen Hammond and Harold Camacho
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
COVID-19 made Canada the ultimate grim reaper among the nations of the Global North.
Why? Because 82% of our first-wave deaths were vulnerable elderly residents of long-term care facilities. And, yes, you do need to know more about this.
Reviewing the pandemic’s first 20 months, and delving into a cornucopia of eldercare issues.
Website
Music: Hiroki Tanaka
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Saturday Jan 08, 2022
Reviewing the pandemic’s first 20 months, and delving into a broad spectrum of eldercare issues, host Megan J. Davies talks to an eclectic cast of characters: a journalist who set out to keep a tally of the deaths, a nurse in charge of infection control at Toronto’s largest public care facility, a resident who rebelled against being shut inside, and a public artist committed to moving grief out of the Kleenex box and into the community.