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“First do no harm”: Reflections on the application of consensus guidelines for diabetes and other chronic conditions in residential care

Diabetes mellitus is a major metabolic disease with known poor health outcomes and significant costs to the individual and the health care system. It is one of several chronic disabling disorders on the increase,... Read More

Guest editorial: Clinical challenges in residential care

Prior to the Second World War, highly dependent elderly people unable to live on their own received care through a number of religious orders and “poor homes” throughout Canada.[1] In BC, nursing homes or residential... Read More