Home care, long-term facilities need more attention as population ages: experts

'It's lacking in basically every province. There’s an inadequate approach to standardizing the profession of home-care service delivery,' says University of British Columbia professor Steve Morgan.

Housing for seniors is anticipated to become a bigger societal issue as the population ages. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities says that 'Canada faces a seniors' housing crisis—one that will have serious consequences on everything from our economy to our communities.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY DENIS CALNAN

June 6, 2016

As a increasing number of Canadians start to use home care and enter long-term care facilities, some say that the federal and provincial governments should review investments in these elements of the health-care system and perhaps do more. “Although aging of the population only puts a gradual pr...

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