Quality of Life in Long-term Care - What Will It Take?
Hear the radio interview with Dr. Penny MacCourt, ARRBC Chair, speaking about the development and ongoing work of ARRC. Penny was a featured guest on Senior Moments, a CFIS radio show (93.1 FM) broadcast from Prince George and hosted by Dawn Hemingway, an ARRC leadership team member
Listen Here: Seniors Moments Interview
Issues
Following are some of the issues ARRCBC is concerned about and will be addressing through advocacy
- COVID-19 has exposed degradation of care to seniors and instability of the workforce
- Privatization and deregulation have eroded the care seniors receive
- Government-funded profit-making LTC facilities profit at a cost to seniors, front-line workers and taxpayers
- Working short staffed has become routine
- The number of direct-care hours per resident is neither standardized nor regulated
- LTC facilities aren’t accountable for how direct-care funding is spent
- Government-funded profit-making LTC facilities profit by not providing the number of hours of direct care for which they are funded
- Front line staff are under-payed and over-worked - leading to high turn-over and employment in multiple facilities
- Food, laundry and other services are often contracted out to the lowest bidder
- There isn’t an effective monitoring system to identify sub-standard care in LTC facilities, nor enforceable consequences
- Family members/councils are often the first to identify inadequate care but don’t know how to complain or are intimidated
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