CARP Ottawa Chapter President, Claude Paul Boivin and Vice-President, Kathy Wright weigh in on the need for a transformation on long-term care in Ontario.
Click here to read their opinion column from the Ottawa Citizen, May 4, 2022.
Boivin and Wright: Transforming Ontario’s long-term care system should be a ballot-box issue
Within the present system, it is very challenging for staff who work in long-term care homes to address all the physical, social, psychological, spiritual and cultural needs described in the Long-Term Care Homes Residents’ Bill of Rights. Ontario has one of the most risk-averse long-term care homes system in Canada where the overabundance of regulations contributes to objectifying residents according to tasks, not needs.
