A recent survey found 84% of workers at Canadian organizations with 100 or more employees are suffering from career burnout, with 34% reporting high or extreme levels. The study, conducted by a global employee management firm, also found that one in five employees were actively looking for a new job – but experts say quitting is not necessarily the cure for career burnout, as employers are increasingly open to working with employees to lessen work stress in today’s tight labour market.
A new survey suggests that more people in Ontario are accessing mental health support than at any other time during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Mental Health Association poll indicated 24% of respondents have sought help for mental health challenges, compared to 17% last winter and 9% almost two years ago. The poll surveyed 1,001 Ontario adults between Jan. 10 and Jan. 17, 2022.
After “Deltacron” started making headlines and fuelling panic in early January as an alleged hybrid between two COVID-19 variants (Delta and Omicron), it turned out to be a mistake. Upon inspection, multiple researchers said the sequence appears to be a “contamination,” “lab error” or “artifact.” Now, experts advise people to avoid using misleading and panic-inducing terminology.
Health-care experts say there are solutions to Ontario's immense backlog of non-COVID-19 cases, but it would require a "complete rethink" of how the province's health system operates. They also say the backlog, along with the staffing shortage, were both problems before the pandemic, but the "unrelenting chokehold" of COVID-19 on the system stretched its threadbare resources like never before. The call for a better way to address the crisis comes as non-urgent surgeries resumed this week.
New national standards have been released to improve Canada’s long-term care facilities, after a 21 month-long revision process involving over 18,000 Canadians and stakeholders. Dr. Samir Sinha, technical committee chair for the Health Standards Organization (HSO), said he is hopeful this will provide a “clear blueprint” to enable the federal government, provinces, and territories to move long-term care “to where all Canadians are demanding it to go.”
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, initiatives like Bell Let’s Talk Day, now in its 12th year, aims to help people of all backgrounds and age groups struggling with mental health by raising both awareness and money to support organizations across Canada that help improve mental health care access and funding research that could one day offer promising treatments, all with the goal of eliminating the stigma around mental illness.
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