Single-occupant rooms, no COVID-19 cases and 20-year plans. Here’s what long-term care looks like outside of Canada

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In Denmark, elderly residents are cared for in their homes for as long as possible before moving to a nursing home, where they live in their own units, complete with kitchenette, washroom, living room and bedroom.

On the other side of the world in Taiwan, it’s normal for just two residents of long-term care to be in the same room.

Both countries have implemented long-term-care practices that experts say Canada should be striving to implement, and both have had fewer COVID-19 deaths in their homes.

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Nursing homes and COVID-19