In a Globe and Mail extensive research project, Kelly Grant and Elizabeth Church emphasize the need for government to realize the need for more money to be allocated to home healthcare. Their article follows the story of Terry Leblanc, an 86 year old woman who is experiencing the benefits of home care. The article follows with research showing all the benefits that home health care offers to both seniors and our healthcare system. “The trouble is, in Ontario at least, the home-care system is too dysfunctional and poorly funded to adequately meet the challenge,” says Grant and Church.
Ontario has cut acute-care hospital beds by 44 per cent over the last quarter century, from 33,403 in 1990 to 18,588 last year. The number of complex continuing-care beds – where patients with severe, ongoing medical needs can co-pay to stay in hospital for a long time – dropped even more sharply in that period, by 53 per cent.
For the full article, please visit the Globe and Mail website.
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