What’s the future of CCACs in Ontario?

Recent negative headlines around provincially-funded homecare services have caught the attention CARP members who regularly interact with the provincial Community Care Access Centres (CCACs). Ontario currently has 14 CCACs that provide and coordinate a number of government funded medical services from rehabilitation to personal support and homemaking, (food preparation, bathing, house cleaning) to more complex […]

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What’s the future of CCACs in Ontario?

Recent negative headlines around provincially-funded homecare services have caught the attention CARP members who regularly interact with the provincial Community Care Access Centres (CCACs). Ontario currently has 14 CCACs that provide and coordinate a number of government funded medical services from rehabilitation to personal support and homemaking, (food preparation, bathing, house cleaning) to more complex […]

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Halton Chapter's January Meetings with CCAC in Review

Information posted February 2, 2014 For our February Community meetings in Milton and Burlington we invited the Community Care Access Centre of Mississauga/Halton (CCAC) to present “Your Gateway to the Health Care System.” We welcomed speaker Bobbi Greenberg to both meetings who gave an in depth presentation on how the health care system works for those […]

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CCAC cares about you.

CCAC has Community Access Centres throughout Ontario. Peterborough is part of the Central East CCAC, a huge area extending to such distant places as Scarborough, Haliburton, the Lakeshore, and Campbellford, and that area breaks down into a number of smaller local agencies. Have you or a loved one, or even a friend, recently been released […]

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Dying woman outlives her 90 days of home care so CCAC cuts her services

  When Doris Landry was discharged from hospital with a life expectancy of one to two months, she entered the “Home First” program. Offered by the Central Community Care Access Centre, the program provided a caseworker, personal support workers for eight hours every day, and medical equipment including a special bed, an oxygen machine, a […]

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Your Health, Your Way at the Mississauga Halton CCAC, June 6th, 2012

Information posted April 19, 2012 Join the Mississauga Halton CCAC for a FREE one-hour public  information session: Wednesday June 6, 2012 6.30pm to 8.00pm In the Clubhouse at BraeBen Golf Course, 5700 Terry Fox Way, Mississauga. When planning for your own or your loved ones health care needs, it is important to think about your […]

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Join CARP’s National Day of Action

Stand Up for Canadian Pensioners   On Wed. February 21st, we’re organizing a National Day of Action to Protect Pensioners. Meetings with Liberal MPs’ will take place across the country to demand better legislation to protect pensioners who stand to lose millions when their company becomes insolvent or bankrupt, like Sears Canada, Nortel and many more. For a list […]

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Finally, funding for a provincial dementia strategy in Ontario

Toronto, ON, May 3, 2017 – The Ontario government announced some good news for more than 200,000 people suffering from dementia and their loved ones. It announced their commitment to invest more than $100 million over three years towards the implementation of a dementia strategy in last week’s Provincial Budget. “Dementia is a debilitating disease […]

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