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cord-344818-ms2edk3w	Chu, Charlene H.	Competing Crises: COVID‐19 Countermeasures and Social Isolation among Older Adults in Long Term Care	2020-07-09		.txt	text/plain	2019	108	52	Older adults living in long-term care (LTC) facilities comprise 79% of the COVID-19 death toll in Canada (Rothan & Byrareddy, 2020; Walsh & Semeniuk, 2020) . While our failure to protect long-term care (LTC) facilities has been made apparent both by this high mortality and a shocking recent Canadian Armed Forces Report (Mialkowski, 2020) , the singular focus on mortality has overshadowed any attention to morbidityparticularly the effects of physical distancing on health, quality of life and autonomy. Recent changes to LTC visitation policies allow loved ones to visit in-person but continue to be overly restrictive: visits could only be 30-minutes long, outdoors, physically distanced while wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) and the visitor needed to present a COVID-19 negative test (Ontario Ministry of Long-Term Care, 2020). All rights reserved the toll and trauma that COVID-19 countermeasures have taken on older adults residing in LTC facilities and their families.	./cache/cord-344818-ms2edk3w.txt	./txt/cord-344818-ms2edk3w.txt