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Privatization & Declining Access to BC Seniors’ Care [1]

An urgent call for policy change
Author(s): 
Andrew Longhurst [2]
March 27, 2017
Download [3]
10.78 MB32 pages

Home and community care services in BC—home health care, assisted living and residential care—require urgent attention. For the past 16 years, underfunding, privatization and fragmentation of the system have left many seniors, their families and communities patching together care and even going without.

This report shows that increasing access to home and community care doesn’t just benefit seniors, it is widely acknowledged as key for reducing hospital overcrowding and surgical wait times.

Additional Documents: 
  • Privatization & Declining Access to BC Seniors' Care: SUMMARY [4]
    4.92 MB
Offices: 
BC Office [5]
Issue: 
Health, health care system, pharmacare [6]
Public services and privatization [7]
Seniors issues and pensions [8]
Projects: 
Public Interest Research Project (BC) [9]
Seniors Care [10]
ISBN: 
978-1-77125-336-9

Source URL: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/privatization-declining-access-bc-seniors%E2%80%99-care

Links
[1] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/privatization-declining-access-bc-seniors%E2%80%99-care
[2] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/authors/andrew-longhurst
[3] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/BC%20Office/2017/03/access_to_seniors_care_report_170327%20FINAL.pdf
[4] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/BC%20Office/2017/03/SUMMARY%20Crisis%20in%20BCs%20Home%20and%20Community%20Care%20FINAL.pdf
[5] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/offices/bc
[6] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/issues/health-health-care-system-pharmacare
[7] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/issues/public-services-and-privatization
[8] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/issues/seniors-issues-and-pensions
[9] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/projects/public-interest-research-project
[10] https://www.policyalternatives.ca/projects/seniors-care