A nationwide review of nursing homes found most provinces have some resident-centred care policies that meet the new national long-term-care standards, the National Institute on Ageing says, but there’s a lot of catching up to do.
found most provinces have some resident-centred care policies that meet the new national long-term-care standards, the National Institute on Ageing says, but there’s a lot of catching up to do.
The NIA’s jurisdictional review assessed provinces using the new rules from the Health Standards Organization. Sinha said provincial governments can use the review to prepare applications for the federal government’s promised $3 billion in funding to help meet the new standards. Of the 13 jurisdictions, the report said nine responded to researchers with comments and questions: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon.Roughly 20 per cent of the provinces and territories have procedures that would meet the new long-term-care standards, the review noted.are barely registering,” Sinha said. “And the majority are kind of in the middle.
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