Ontario Long-Term Care Commission’s report stresses value of person-centred care as the way to transform a nursing home system ignored for decades by politicians, bureaucrats and the public.

Lorraine Olive Gouveia, 54, worked for 18 years at Maple Grove Care Community in Brampton. She died Monday at the Trillium Hospital in Mississauga.

‘There are so many front-line, essential workers here putting their lives at risk ... and in return they can be hit where they’re most vulnerable — their kids,” says a Brampton social worker.

Using special-ordered Statistics Canada data, a new study looked at how areas with a higher percentage of households with “mutually dependent adults” overlapped with areas of high rates of COVID-19.

As of Saturday, 4.9 million Ontarians have received at least one dose, or 41 per cent of the province’s adult population.

Kanaiya Gandhi was fiercely proud of his factory job making acoustic panels. He was one of 12 people to fall ill with COVID-19 in a winter outbreak there — and the only one to die.

Ontario is reporting 3,369 COVID-19 cases and 29 deaths Saturday.

An accessible paid sick leave, which we’re still lacking is just the beginning, they write.

The public sent more than 200,000 letters to decision makers, calling for improvements to the system.

Premier Doug Ford’s government was ‘slow’ to react to the threat of COVID-19, and this condemned thousands of vulnerable residents in unprepared nursing homes to ‘a parade of sickness and death.’