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Luke Turcotte, George Heckman, Paul Hébert

    Sante Publique (Vandoeuvre-Les-Nancy, France)
    |December 27, 2022
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    Long-term care homes in Canada serving diverse language groups show similar resident characteristics and quality indicators. This supports language-agnostic quality benchmarking across all Canadian facilities, including bilingual provinces.

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    Area of Science:

    • Gerontology
    • Health Services Research
    • Sociolinguistics

    Context:

    • Canada's long-term care sector serves diverse linguistic populations across provinces and territories.
    • Official languages (English and French) usage varies geographically, impacting healthcare delivery.
    • Understanding linguistic group differences is crucial for equitable quality assessment.

    Purpose:

    • To compare characteristics of residents in long-term care homes serving different language groups.
    • To examine variations in data quality and indicator performance across language groups.
    • To assess the comparability of long-term care homes based on their primary resident language.

    Summary:

    • A study analyzed 1,333 long-term care homes across nine Canadian provinces/territories using interRAI Minimum Data Set (MDS) 2.0 data.

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  • Homes were categorized into predominantly English, French, or mixed language groups.
  • No substantial differences were found in resident characteristics, quality indicators, or data quality between language groups.

    • Impact:

    • Findings suggest that long-term care homes serving predominantly French or other language speakers can be directly compared to English-serving homes.
    • Supports the use of language-agnostic benchmarking for quality of care assessment in Canadian long-term care.
    • Facilitates standardized quality improvement initiatives across diverse linguistic settings in Canada.