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            2009 Reports:

  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Report Towards An Enhanced and More Accessible Home Support System for BC's Seniors (May 2009) lays out three policy recommendations that would strengthen and expand home support in a practical and cost-effective way. It calls for an increase of the provincial home support budget by $100 million per year in order to implement the proposed reforms. Injecting new funding in the home support system is an opportunity to make a sound investment in community care and increase the quality of life of frail seniors, while achieving long-term cost savings for the health system.
  • Innovations in Community Care: From Pilot Project to System Change. This paper highlights positive examples of what is working well in home and community care in British Columbia. BC can boast of a number of local, small-scale initiatives that support people with significant health challenges who continue to live in their homes or in residential care. Many of these people are individuals with low income, frail seniors, and/or people living with a mental or physical disability. By helping them function in the community, these innovations take pressure off in-patient hospital and emergency services. Published by the CCPA (April 2009).

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            2006 Reports: 

  • CCPA Report: From Support to Isolation (June 2006): This report summary explores the transformation of home support services in BC in the past decade, and the impact on home support workers and their clients, who mainly consist of frail seniors who often live alone and on low income.

 
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