TREC Updates for the week of Dec 1, 2020

• Dr Sube Banerjee, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health:  Medicine, Dentistry and Human Sciences at the University of Plymouth (U.K.) has created a very interesting video entitled Dementia:  A Change is Gonna to Come.  In this podcast, Dr Banerjee considers the disproportionate burden of mortality and morbidity bourn by older people and people with dementia in care homes in the Covid-19 pandemic as an issue of discrimination. Framed by the words of Sam Cooke’s anthem “A change is gonna come”, he discusses how things can and must change for the better.The video can be viewed at the following link:  https://5x5x5.co.uk/research/dementia-a-change-is-gonna-come

• As part of the Voices of the Royal Society of Canada COVID-19 series, Drs Eric Wong, Carole Estabrooks and Sharon Straus authored an article entitled AN INQUIRY OF INQUIRIES: WHEN WILL WE COMMIT TO FIXING LONG-TERM CARE?  This OpEd can be viewed at the following link:
  https://rsc-src.ca/en/voices/inquiry-inquiries-when-will-we-commit-to-fixing-long-term-care