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Publisher: Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 0886274133

It reviews the actual changes in the number of beds and services available to seniors and people with disabilities using sources from the Ministry of Health, the Canadian Institute for Health Information, other provinces, and the regional health authorities themselves. [...] The commission argued that by shifting resources from institutional and acute care to the community, and by focusing on health promotion and early intervention strategies, individual health status could be improved and health care costs controlled.2 The reality of the closer to home strategy has not, however, always kept pace with the government's rhetoric and the funding has rarely "followed the [...] The first section examines the overall context in which the restructuring of residential and home health care services is occurring: that is, the reduction in the availability of acute care beds and changes in population demographics. [...] Access to available long-term care beds is lower than the provincial average when measured relative to population and access to available home support, From 2001 to December 2004, and home care is the lowest in the province."15 there was a net closure of 26 Similarly, the undersupply of residential care and assisted living units residential care facilities, in the Capital Regional District (i.e. [...] However, the provincial government's decision to promote the substitution of assisted living beds for residential care beds was based on another assumption: that the costs of assisted living to the health authorities would be about half as much as Although the discussion is residential care.20 In The Picture of Health (2002) the provincial government framed in terms of the benefits states that its.