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Rethink health policy for elderly
… a continuing care system for older adults is a key component of our health system – equivalent to hospital care, physician care and public health. This would allow the splintered components of home care, home support, residential care facilities and geriatric units in hospitals to be brought together… Given that most of the parts are already in place in most jurisdictions, it would cost relatively little to set up integrated systems of care for the elderly. It would be money well spent.
Tags: budget, disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, mental Health, standard of living
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How mental illness complicates medically assisted dying
Bill C-14, the legislation to govern medically assisted dying, advises needing further study when mental illness is the sole criterion, leading some to charge discrimination. Such arguments are specious. The fight against stigma and discrimination includes appreciating that “equity” does not mean everything is “the same.” Equity involves impartial and fair evaluation of situations… Complex decisions without standards become value judgments or best guesses, and we should not be gambling with the vulnerable lives.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living
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Parliament has fumbled assisted death from the beginning
The Supreme Court has laid out criteria allowing assisted death for competent adults who provide clear consent, are enduring “intolerable suffering” and have a “grievous or irremediable” medical condition. There will be no rush by doctors to help assist the death of patients after June 6. Without a federal law, most would likely be hesitant to act with legislation looming.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights
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Ontario vows to overhaul child protection system
The new report, written by three government-appointed experts, describes a muddled system where the government loses track of children taken into care, has no minimum qualifications for caregivers and allows a growing number of kids “with complex special needs” to be placed in unlicensed programs… The report, called Because Young People Matter, lays responsibility for the troubled system squarely at the doorstep of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services, noting it failed to put province-wide standards and mechanisms in place to ensure children receive high-quality care.
Tags: child care, crime prevention, disabilities, featured, Health, housing, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, youth
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Kathleen Wynne has the chance to do the right thing and support autistic children
… the government still has time to get one priority right, by reversing this decision. And it doesn’t have to spend more money to do so, just change the way existing dollars are spent. For years, the OAC has shown how a direct funding model — allocating money to families instead of providers — would support more kids with the same amount of resources. Children over age five would thus not need to be cut off IBI to shorten the waitlist for younger kids.
Tags: budget, child care, disabilities, featured, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Government still lets nursing homes improperly drug seniors
… nursing homes too often use antipsychotic drugs as “chemical straitjackets” to keep their residents docile. The good news from this study is that 56 nursing homes were persuaded to do something they should have done anyway: review the medication prescribed their clients to make sure it was appropriate. The bad news is that provincial governments — including Ontario’s — aren’t requiring them to do so.
Tags: disabilities, Health, mental Health, participation, pharmaceutical, rights, standard of living
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Proper housing is a crucial a health issue
Social factors, like housing, income and wealth, educational background and race are more powerful determinants of health outcomes than our behaviours, genes or even the health-care system. And yet, experts in health are often trained to focus on the provision of health-care services, often sending patients back into the social and economic conditions that made them sick… As health-care providers, we know the actual prescription needed is safe, secure and affordable housing.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living
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From exploited to supported: Phasing out Canada’s lowest wage work programs
[It] is about more than ensuring minimum wage rates and decent workplace conditions for intellectually disabled individuals… It is about transitioning supports from segregated and congregate settings to community participation, community engagement and community employment.” … fram[ing] the shift away from the sheltered workshop model as a “deinstitutionalizing segregated labour markets.”
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Queen’s Park should save schools for deaf children
… depriving deaf children of sign language results in linguistic and cognitive delays that extend into adulthood… The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires governments to facilitate learning of sign language by deaf students and promote the linguistic identity of the deaf community in schools. Instead of closing the provincial schools, the ministry of education should work to enhance the schools’ environment and enable deaf and hard of hearing students to thrive.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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