Advocates and operators in the sector say the new admission rules have proven to be a bit too blunt of an instrument when it comes to the several dozen cultural long-term care homes across Ontario
Seniors use virtual reality headsets at the Ivan Franko Long-Term Care Home, a Ukrainian cultural home in Toronto, on April 3. Ontario is proposing a pilot project to tweak long-term care priority rules in order to address a problem of declining and mismatched admissions to the province’s cultural homes.
But advocates and operators in the sector say the new admission rules have proven to be a bit too blunt of an instrument when it comes to the several dozen cultural long-term care homes across the province, which cater to seniors from Korean, Jewish and francophone communities, for example.For example, some are being moved into an Italian home without speaking that language, operators say, while people who are looking for a placement in that Italian home end up elsewhere.
There are more than 6,000 people on the crisis waitlist, Long-Term Care Minister Natalia Kusendova-Bashta wrote in a notice attached to the regulatory proposal. “Often those individuals, if English isn’t their first language, would revert back to their mother tongue and that’s why it’s just so important that they be able to be in the homes where the language is familiar, the food is familiar, the traditions are familiar,” she said.
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