Opinion: Federal, provincial, territorial ministers of health must make caring for our older adults top priority when they meet in Vancouver on Monday to try to negotiate a new health accord.
What remains to be seen is how much and what the funding priorities might be. With the health care system’s troubles lately creating headlines, there is significant public and fiscal pressure on governments to address systemic gaps.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Systemic failure is not an option as it will have an impact on too many Canadian families living in every community and every province and territory. Shifting toward four hours per day of care — a widely agreed upon new minimum amount — will require both more funding and more trained health-care workers.
While a proposed federal “Aging in Place” benefit looks promising, the sheer number of Canadians eventually requiring increasingly complex long-term care cannot be met by current plans.
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