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Background: The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has severely hit Canadian nursing facilities (81% of deaths). To this toll, public health measures (eg, visitation restriction) have subsequently deepened the social isolation and loneliness of residents in nursing facilities (NFs), especially those in linguistic minority settings: Anglophone institutions in Quebec and Francophone institutions outside Quebec. However, very few COVID-19 initiatives targeting these populations specifically...
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Mental illness affects about 1 in 5 Canadians during their lifetime but only approximately 30% of people needing help actually access mental health ser vices (Gravel, Connolly & Bédard, 2004). This low access rate is worrisome and may not accurately depict the reality as it is lived out by linguistic minorities. The present study documents both the need for and access to English-lan guage mental health services by the Estrie region’s English-speaking minority. Intending to record their...
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Les minorités de langue officielle (MLO) du Canada rencontrent des difficultés d’accès aux services sociaux et de santé (SSS). Or, il n’existe aucun portrait exhaustif des services concernés par ces difficultés et des facteurs (facilitateurs et barrières) qui modulent leur accès. Ainsi, le but de cette étude était de décrire l’accessibilité des SSS et d’identifier les facteurs influant sur l’accès aux SSS pour les MLO canadiennes. Une étude de portée dans neuf banques de données combinée à...
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Considering that French is the dominant language in Quebec, that relatively few francophone providers of health and social services are able to speak English, and that English-speaking older adults (OAs) have low levels of bilingualism, anglophone OAs are more likely than their francophone peers to face language barriers when accessing health and social services. However, little is known about the strategies English-speaking OAs put into place to overcome the difficulties encountered due to...
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