Long-Term Care

Kelly called Concerned Friends to get help finding a Long-Term Care facility for her mom. Concerned Friends’ Wayfinding Program helped her every step of the way, from giving her a checklist of questions for facilities, to the application process and more. Kelly’s mom is very happy in her new home! The Ontario government provides affordable, […]

Please click this link to see this information on the Facebook page for  Concerned Friends: A Voice For Quality in Long-Term Care Concerned Friends applauds the development of national standards for long-term care homes and urges the federal government to make such standards mandatory–as a criterion for federal funding for health care. Concerned Friends urges

The following comes to us from the  Concerned Friends: A Voice For Quality in Long-Term Care Click on the link above to visit their Facebook page Did you know that all long-term care homes (all 627 of them) in Ontario are funded in part by the Ontario government? Which means they are accountable to us–Ontario

This information can be found by clicking the following link to the Facebook page for the Advocates for Long-Term Care Reform in Ontario Voluntary standards did not protect the 17,000 residents of long-term care homes who have died so far because of COVID-19. We need standards that are backed by the force of law. People

Advocates for Long-Term Care Reform in Ontario The right of a substitute decision maker to consent or not consent to the transfer of a patient to the long term care home is removed. The Health Care Consent Act 1996 provides: “47 (1) Despite any law to the contrary, if a person is found by an