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Health & Healthcare

Long-term care platforms

Here's what the 2023 PEI election parties are promising.

PC
  • Expand electronic medical records to manors and nursing homes
  • Increase the monthly comfort allowance for residents in care
  • Create a capital loan programme for expanding community and long-term care programmes

    "Create a capital loan program for community care and long-term care facilities to expand over the next five years" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24

  • Create a fund for recruitment and retention initiatives

    "Respecting collective agreements, establish a fund to foster recruitment and retention specific to community care and long-term care facilities" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24

  • Add additional resources, such as physiotherapists and occupational therapists, to community and long-term care facilities

    "Introduce additional resources, such as physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other allied health providers, into community care and long-term facilities to improve the quality of life for residents" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24

  • Legislate common standards with standardised inspections for public and private care facilities

    "Make legislative amendments to ensure that public and private community care facilities and long-term care facilities move toward common standards, including uniform inspections so that Islanders are safe and receive appropriate care and support" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24

  • Decrease the wage gap between public and private providers

    "Continue to work with the Long-term Care Associations to decrease the wage gap between public and private providers and to develop a long-term human resource strategy for community care and long-term care facilities" — With You. For You., 2023-03-24

Green
  • Offer low-interest loans to private long-term care facilities to make capital improvements
  • Review long-term care and community care home fees
  • Legislate national standards for long-term care
  • Add new long-term care beds in the public system
  • Transition away from for-profit care by giving government an ownership stake in for-profit homes
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"Islanders have expressed concerns about the rising cost of community care and long-term care, and how much families of seniors in care are expected to pay. There are also concerns about the amount of a senior’s income and assets are required to be given up when they enter care. A Green government would immediately review these fees and regulations to make sure Islanders are not paying more than is necessary." — peigreens.ca backgrounder, 2023-03-17

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Liberal
  • Provide subsidies and contractual payments reflecting inflation

    "Develop and implement subsidies and contractual payments that reflect the actual inflation and cost of living increases experienced by the sector" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

  • Pay community care facilities and nursing care facilities the same for non-health services
  • Create a planning model to provide 10-year projections for care needs

    "Develop a supply and demand planning model that provides 10-year projections on long-term care, community care, and senior’s housing needs" — Healthcare First: An Action Plan for Islanders, 2023-03-22

  • Develop new expanded training programmes for long-term care
  • Expand nursing care for treating dementia patients in public and private facilities
  • Make the national long-term care standards mandatory

NDP
  • Push back on privatisation
  • Invest in training programmes and incentives to address staffing shortages
  • Expand the scope of practice of personal care workers
  • Work with other governments to develop national care standards

    "Work with the federal, provincial and territorial governments to develop national care standards." — NDP Platform 2023, 2023-03-09

  • Require a standard number of daily hours of care for nursing home and community care residents
  • Improving living spaces, programming, and staffing for residents with dementia and severe impairment
  • Prioritise livable wages, stable work, and health and safety for long-term and home-care workers

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