Opinion: Make national standards mandatory and fix long-term care. Ottawa could wrap a LTC package into its plan to increase health-care spending by making the payment contingent on provinces meeting national standards.
If Justin Trudeau’s Liberals want it, they have been given a chance to fix long-term care.
Nursing homes were devastated by COVID. They became horror stories — places where, in effect, residents were expected to die.Residents weren’t bathed. In some nursing homes they weren’t even fed. They were kept from seeing family members. Ostensibly, this was to protect residents from the COVID virus. But the real effect was to ensure the total isolation of long-term-care residents. To be given a bed in the long-term system was like being handed a sentence of death.
All of these weaknesses were well-known even before the pandemic struck. But COVID revealed the contradictions of the system in a way that was impossible to ignore. Those proposed standards were revealed this week. They are not radical. More to the point, they are not mandatory. That is to say they can be easily ignored by both the long-term-care industry and the country’s provincial governments.It could do so by wrapping a long-term-care package into its current plan to increase health-care spending.
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