Traduction de «Geriatric Units in Hospitals - Geriatric Day Hospitals » (Anglais → Français) :

geriatric day hospital | geriatric day unit

geriatric center [ geriatric day center | geriatric day hospital ]

day hospital | day-hospital | day-unit

In rural areas, care is provided primarily in hospitals, because there are fewer specialists; there are fewer medical clinics; there are fewer ambulatory care units in the hospitals; less day surgery is done, so people are hospitalized more often. In contrast, in urban settings, where far more medical procedures are done, primary care is provided in medical clinics or in ambulatory care units and so on and so forth.

To the extent that the hospital remains a part of the spectrum of services required by the mentally ill, it has become true that those who are admitted to hospital these days are often admitted to smaller units with pressures for shorter lengths of stay.

(Return tabled) Question No. 864 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to mental health and suicide in the Canadian Forces (CF), including regular forces, reservists and veterans, as well as among Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) veterans: (a) what does history and research show from the First World War (WWI) and the Second World War (WWII), regarding the percentage of Canadian veterans who suffered some degree of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and how it might have impacted their ability to (i) hold down jobs, (ii) maintain relationships, (iii) overcome substance abuse, (iv) maintain their will to live; (b) how are suicides tracked for CF regular forces, reservists and veterans, including RCMP veterans, (i) has the tracking method ch ...[+++]anged over time (from 2000 onwards) for any of these groups, including name changes (e.g., suicide versus sudden death) and, if so, how, why and when, (ii) how are suicides tracked among veterans who may not be known to Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) and who may be under other types of care (e.g., in hospitals) or in homeless shelters, prisons, etc.; (c) what are the identified gaps in tracking for each of the identified groups and, for each gap, what action items (i) are planned (including predicted start and completion dates, and necessary funding), (ii) are being implemented (including predicted completion date and necessary funding), (iii) have been completed to address the problem; (d) how are suicides investigated for each identified group today and, for each group, for the years 1990 to the present (or years available), (i) what percentage of victims were known to either the Department of National Defense (DND) or VAC prior to the suicide, or to the medical, social-aid or prison system, (ii) what percentage had attempted suicide before, (iii) what percentage suffered from an identified Operational Stress Injury (OSI), including PTSD, anxiety, depression or substance abuse, (iv) what percentage suffered from acquired brain ...

Hon. Anne C. Cools: Honourable senators, pursuant to rule 57(1) and (2), and 58(2), I give notice that I will call the attention of the Senate to an attempted neonaticide, being the brutal attempted homicide of a newlyborn infant who was born in a private home and then shot in the head in Carleton Place, Ontario, and who was sent to the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa a few days ago; and to the work of Dr. Charles Smith, a pediatric forensic pathologist w ...[+++]ith Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children's Ontario Pediatric Forensic Pathology Unit et al. on neonaticide in the province of Ontario.