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1Currently serves as the director of Geriatrics at Sinai Health and the University Health Network and the director of Health Policy Research at Toronto Metropolitan University's National Institute on Ageing in Toronto, ON. A member of Canada's National Seniors Council, he is also a professor in the Departments of Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and an adjunct professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD.
Abstract:
Samir K. Sinha - Implementation Science Team lead and chair of the Health Standards Organization's National Long-Term Care Services Standard Technical Committee - sheds light on the development of the long-term care national standards. Sinha also discusses what the standards hope to achieve for improved quality of care and quality of life across the sector.
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