InTheirOwnVoices: The timely intervention of palliative care is essential in ensuring that many of these people receive the right care at the right time in their place of choice. Palliative care is a vital solution to Ontario’s hospital crisis.
without any choice in the matter. According to the government, these patients will be prioritized to be transferred closer to home if a long-term-care home of their choice becomes available. There is no indication of how long this may take.
Many frail elders designated as ALC, who will be affected by this bill, have a short life expectancy. A previousshowed that a sizable proportion of ALC patients are in their last ninety days of life. Some even die in hospital, without ever being discharged to another care setting or without receiving any type of palliative care.
So, what is a better solution? Equitable and universal access to around-the-clock, high-quality, palliative care. Palliative care offers solutions for Ontario’s health care system, which the government can start to implement today.
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