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Fact Sheets: Backgrounder on Home Support Home Support: How to get the help you need Home Support - Better ideas: the Danish model Reports: - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Report: Towards An Enhanced and More Accessible Home Support System for BC's Seniors (May 2009). This report lays out three policy recommendations that would strengthen and expand home support in a practical and cost-effective way. The paper 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.
- 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.
- CCPA Report: Renewal or Retreat: BC Residential and Home Health Care Restructuring 2001–2004 (April 2005). This report investigates the debate on eldercare in BC to find out what is really going on. It reviews the actual changes n the number of beds and services available to seniors and people with disabilities using credible government sources. It assesses the government’s use of assisted living as a substitute for residential care. And it examines the costs and implications of these changes for the health system, not only forrail seniors and people with disabilities, but also for their families and the communities in which they live.
- NUPGE Report: Dignity Denied: Long-Term Care and Canada's Elderly (February 2007). This report was released by the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE). It provides some interesting comparisons between for-profit and public LTC facilities. It also cites several reports that have been published in academic sources which discuss the impact of privatization on home care and long- term care facilities.
Cuts to Home Support by Region: Interior Health Authority Northern Health Authority Vancouver Island Health Authority Fraser Health Authority Vancouver Coastal Health Authority Translated Resources: Access our Home Support materials in Simplified Chinese.
Access our Home Support materials in Punjabi.
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