Seniors' advocates want national standards for care as COVID-19 surges

The ongoing death toll and dire impacts on seniors in residential care during the pandemic are the legacy of historical and well-documented but unaddressed issues, said Laura Tamblyn Watts, CEO of CanAge, a national seniors' advocacy group. “We know a lot of the problems that have plagued our response to COVID-19 are long-standing issues,” said Tamblyn Watts