Shifting towards autonomy : Continuing care model for Canada

Australia and the UK call it “aged care;” the World Health Organization uses the term “long-term care.” But because the term long-term care in most Canadian provinces conventionally applies to care in traditional institutions, such as nursing homes, in this Commentary we use the term continuing care to highlight the spectrum of care needs. [...] We look focus on providing care in institutions and the at the systems of financing and delivering care for painstakingly slow process of moving care to the seniors in need of assistance among countries that community. [...] They include: size of the cash benefit below the value of in kind • increased recognition of diversity in care needs services as a way of steering individuals toward and the slow responsiveness of publicly managed the in-kind option. [...] To the extent that OAS plus long-term care or home programs, eligibility for the maximum GIS is considered the minimum subsidized care either in an institution or in the acceptable income for elderly individuals, this may community may depend on whether or not the imply a maximum subsidy that is close to the full potential recipient has access to informal care from cost of an acceptable level of c [...] The aspect of run, the question is whether the introduction of the German model that offers care in kind and the proposed subsidies would result in higher costs requires individuals to opt out if they want to than a future model in which subsidized services receive a smaller subsidy in cash is a sensible option would continue to be provided in kind, but with that would ensure that the in-kind defa