{"id":50983,"date":"2015-06-01T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T07:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50983"},"modified":"2015-06-01T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T07:16:50","slug":"canadian-govt-urge-to-address-lack-of-funding-for-family-home-health-care-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/01\/canadian-govt-urge-to-address-lack-of-funding-for-family-home-health-care-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian gov’t urge to address lack of funding for family home health care providers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mississauga, Ontario — Health Care providers and Peel Region community leaders expressed their frustration for the lack of family home health care funding from both federal and provincial governments. Voices from community members were also heard expressing their concerns about poor and inadequate health care funding for Aboriginal communities of Canada. Similar concerns were also brought by participants to the attention of incumbent and political candidates from three major parties.<\/p>\n

The first Canadian Nurses Association\u2019s (CNA) town hall panel consultation, named \u201cHealth is Where the Home Is\u201d was held yesterday May 30 in Mississauga. CNA President Karina Velji introduced the speakers and community health care providers expert panelists. The health care panelists responded to CNA\u2019s priorities and standards for home care-based healthy aging programs.<\/p>\n

Panelists Anthony Milonas, COO at CB Health Group and Canadian Home Care Association boardmember, Estrella Mercurio, Care & Services Manager, Paramed Home Health Care \u2013 Toronto Central, and Sara Shearhami, co-founder of Family Caregiver Voice spoke about the problems faced by the their communities and the lack of support for family health care providers. They also expressed the need for Federal and provincial government agencies to increase funding for 4 million Canadians who receive home health care. \u201cSixty-three percent of Canada\u2019s aging population are in need of home care in the coming years, \u201c according to one of the panelists.<\/p>\n

An estimated 8.1 million provided home care to family or friends in 2011-2012. The estimated contribution to Canada\u2019s health-care system in unpaid labor by family caregivers is in Billions.Peel Region community members urged candidates to address the urgent needs of the community and family care givers .<\/p>\n

Mark Goldstein and Daria Mercer spoke about inadequate health care support for native communities. \u201cThere is a national health care crisis and tragedy being faced by Canada\u2019s aboriginal communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Political candidates from Mississauga-Streetsville namely, Brad Butt, Concervative MP , and Mississauga \u2013Streetsville candidates Fayaz Karim, NDP, Gagan Sikand, LP and Cris Hill, Green Party answered questions from the panelists and community members. All candidates explained their party\u2019s platform. While the incumbent MP Brad Butt said that the conservative government has done more to increase health care funding, the NDP\u2019s Fayaz Karim remarked that it is time for the government to do more to help Canada\u2019s aging population. \u201c The interests of all Canadians must come first before politics,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

CNA believes that the Federal government can dramatically improve the lives of Canada\u2019s seniors while working with other levels of government and with health care providers. CNA offers the following recommendations which, if acted upon, would make a meaningful difference to seniors. Among these are measures to establish standards across Canada for home health care to ensure all Canadians equitable access to care services that support them in healthy aging; increase support to Canadians who provide for aging relatives by making the existing Family Caregiver Tax Credit refundable; and expand the New Horizons for Seniors Program by incorporating a new objective to support healthy and active aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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