Preventing moral distress and promoting psychological self-care are essential for workers in long-term care homes. In a new report aimed at health-care leaders and policy makers, the Mental Health Commission of Canada, Queen's University, and HEC Montreal are highlighting these workers' needs in long-term care and identifying areas of support for this struggling sector. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care workers were experiencing chronic stress and burnout. Recent investigations by non-profit, media, and government organizations into the growing number of COVID-19-related deaths in long-term care sounded the alarm about the lack of support being provided to the sector in Canada.
