Despite the tragic events it describes, this is one of the few reports on long-term care that have left me hopeful. During more than a decade working on an international research project examining promising practices in long-term care, I learned that many of the most serious problems inside care homes originate outside them—in governance, funding, regulation, accountability, and approaches to care. Too often, inquiries into failures in long-term care miss this broader context. Again, I take a lesson from our research on long-term care. Albert Banerjee is the Research NB Research Chair in Community Health and Aging and Associate Professor of Gerontology at St. Thomas University.