Posts Tagged ‘Home Care’
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The push for a national caregiving strategy
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
A fundamental goal of a national caregiving strategy must be to change the narrative about care work and fully articulate the value it provides society and what we stand to lose in economic and human terms if we don’t support carers. A fundamental part of this work involves acknowledging and addressing the outsized burden of care carried by women and racialized people… a national caregiving strategy will make the issue of care politically and socially unignorable and will drive recognition that care work is skilled, dignified, necessary, and worthy of proper compensation.
Tags: disabilities, Health, Home Care, jurisdiction, Seniors
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Why can’t we die at home? Expanding home care could reduce the financial and environmental cost of dying in hospital
Wednesday, November 20th, 2024
Primary-care teams can act as informal managers of home care through facilitating the medical, social and comfort components of care. All of this would still add up to far less than the financial and environmental cost of hospitalization. At a time when we’re pressured to cut costs and reduce harm to the environment, and when we know dying patients would rather be at home, why can’t we help?
Tags: budget, Health, Home Care, ideology, jurisdiction
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