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Posts Tagged ‘long term care’
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Eldercare and the Workplace: How to Strike a Balance
Canadian employers are understandably concerned about the effects that elder care has on the workforce. In Canada, over 70% of caregivers to the elderly also hold down a job. Many of these caregivers also have a family of their own, with children still living at home.
The stress is too much for some to handle; more than a fifth of Canadians caring for an elderly relative have reported (more…)
Tags: aging trends, Caregiver Support Toronto, caregiving, Elder Care, long term care, planning for long term care
Posted in Care Giving Strategies, Elder Care, Long Term Care, aging trends | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Predictions for 2020
In 2020 today’s 65 year olds will be 75 which for many people will signal the beginning of old-age. This population will be living with the results of today’s predictions from the Sociologists, who study the aging population, and the Economists who study the laws of supply and demand. Some of these predictions state the following: (more…)
Tags: aging trends, Elder Care, long term care
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Aging at Home in Ontario
Because the number of seniors in Ontario will more than double in the next sixteen years, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is developing what they call “Ontario’s Aging at Home Strategy”. Announced in 2007, the strategy calls for an increase in home care and community support services to allow elderly residents of Ontario to age comfortably at home, rather than moving into a long term care home.
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Tags: aging trends, Elder Care, long term care, long term care Toronto, long term care Toronto Ontario
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Private Health Care in Ontario
The privatization of health care in Ontario is here, whether we like it or not. As Dr. Albert Schumacher, the former president of the Canadian Medical Association put it, “The situation we are seeing now are more services around not being funded publicly but people having to pay for them, or their insurance companies. We have a sort of passive privatization” (Source: CBC.ca). In Ontario, when Liberals won in 2003, they promised to shut down the provinces growing number of private clinics, but in 2006 when Conservatives won federally, that promise stalled. It seems that in Ontario, as in other provinces throughout Canada, the growth of private health care is inevitable.
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Tags: aging trends, caregiving, Elder Care, H1N1, long term care
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Signs of Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis is a devastating, degenerative nerve disease that often leaves MS patients wheelchair bound and unable to live independently. People living with MS often require acute long term care, either from friends and relatives or within a long term care settings.
Multiple sclerosis is not a disease associated with old age; typically, the onset age is between twenty and forty. Since early detection of MS can help people live a relatively normal life, it’s important to be able to recognize the symptoms of MS. Here are the most common early signs of multiple sclerosis: (more…)
Tags: aging trends, Elder Care, long term care, Multiple Sclerosis
Posted in Degenerative Disease, Elder Care, Long Term Care | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Long Term Care: Not Age but Function
Generally when we think of “long term care,” our mind automatically goes to senior citizens living in nursing homes. But long term care isn’t a matter of age; it’s a matter of function. There are many Canadians currently living in long term care facilities who are not elderly but nonetheless require round the clock long term care.
Who are these younger Canadians who require long term care, and why are they living in long term care facilities?
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Tags: aging trends, Elder Care, long term care, long term care Toronto Ontario
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Long Term Care Insurance — Ontario
According to Christina Bisanz, the CEO of Ontario Long-Term Care Association, the Ontario Ministry of Health has no particular intention to increase the number of new beds in Ontario’s long term care facilities. This is despite the fact that there is already a long wait list of people — 25,000 in Ontario alone, according to Bisanz — who are waiting for placement into a long term care facility. These wait lists are only getting longer as Canada’s population ages and more people need acute long term care.
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Tags: aging trends, long term care, Long Term Care Insurance, long term care Toronto Ontario
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Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Government Funding & Long Term Care — Ontario
The Canadian health care system is in a state of crisis. With health care budget cuts, combined with the rising cost of health care and the growing number of seniors requiring acute long term care, aging baby boomers have a good reason to worry about whether or not government-funded long term care will be around for them by the time they need it.
Despite the fact that our neighbors to the south have proven privatized health care to be expensive, amoral, and inefficient, the Canadian government may have no choice but to ask its citizens to foot the bill for their own long term care. Consider that already, despite seniors accounting for only 12.5% of the population, they take up almost 43% of health care costs. Just Alzheimer’s disease alone costs nearly $4 billion per year. By 2031, the number of Canadians living with dementia will double. And by 2020, the percentage of seniors will have risen to 20% of the population.
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Tags: aging trends, long term care, Long Term Care Insurance, long term care Toronto, planning for long term care
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
What if You Can’t Afford Private Care?
Around January 2008, senior Christina Woodkey of Vancouver found that the pain in her legs was severe enough to prevent her from doing the things she likes to do, such as ski. The leg pain wasn’t life-threatening, but it made her day-to-day life uncomfortable and challenging. Her doctor told her she’d have to see a hip specialist, and that would take about a year.
One year later, the hip specialist told her she would have to see a back specialist. How long would seeing a back specialist take? Another nine months. She asked when she might expect to get the surgery she needed to solve the problem of the debilitating pain. The answer: (more…)
Tags: aging trends, care costs British Columbia, caregiving strategies, Elder Care, long term care
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