Behind Closed Doors
The Struggle over Homecare
Photo Essay by Tibor Kolley

CARE FROM CRADLE TO GRAVE


Globe and Mail photographer Tibor Kolley spent several days with homecare nurses and home-support workers in Regina as they did their rounds. Homecare clients range in age from newborns to centenarians. They include post-surgery patients, people with chronic disabilities, frail elderly and palliative-care patients in the end stage of life. Until a few years ago, most of them would have spent far more time in institutions than at home.
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