Posts Tagged ‘Home Care’
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Those who care for long-term dementia patients are expected to do the impossible
Monday, April 13th, 2026
You have to deal with a patient who is no longer the person you loved, who is critical and demanding and will not do whatever is in their best interest, like taking medication or seeing a dentist. A patient who might even be violent… If you’re lucky your patient might retain a calm and co-operative personality and/or you can afford to get them into a good and supportive place to live. These are not options for many caregivers.
Tags: disabilities, Health, Home Care, mental Health
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Ontario budget adds $1.1B for home care
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
Housing with supports is a key issue in a province that will hit “super-aged” status this year, when roughly 20 per cent of its 16 million people will be 65 or older… the budget… shows that the government sees long-term care as a “vital part of the foundation that holds our communities together and protects the people who “live, work and receive care in homes across the province.”
Tags: budget, Health, Home Care, participation, Seniors
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I’m a doctor. Here are five overlooked ways the Ontario government is making our ERs more crowded, not less
Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
When Doug Ford was elected premier in 2018, he promised to “end hallway medicine.” But by 2024, the problem had doubled to some 2,000 Ontarians lying on stretchers in hospital hallways… Good health is impossible without stable housing… Shutting down all supervised consumption sites… Underfunded nursing… Expanding for‑profit medicine… [and] Neglecting home care and keeping people in hospital beds
Tags: economy, featured, Health, Home Care, housing, privatization
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Home-care in Ontario can’t keep up — and it’s getting worse
Thursday, July 31st, 2025
… funding home-care is costly, but Ontario cannot afford the alternative. The average per-day cost of home-care is $103. That same per-day cost for long-term care is $201 and a staggering $730 for alternate level care. More importantly, home-care supports what 95 per cent of Ontarians say they want — to remain in their homes as they age.
Tags: budget, Home Care, privatization, Seniors, standard of living
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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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