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Tell your MPP that long term care needs more than a band-aid in this budget.
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LONG TERM CARE NEEDS MORE THAN A BAND-AID.


An additional $513 million in operating funding will...
  • Provide an additional 24 minutes of daily care to help residents get to meals, go to the bathroom etc by adding more Personal Support Workers
  • Increase the average number of daily incontinence changes from 3.5 to approximately 5 for those who need it.
  • Increase programs and activities during the evening and on weekend by adding an activity aide per home seven days a week
  • Improve dietary assessments by increasing the time for consultation with clinical dieticians
  • Improve meal services by adding food service workers
  • Improve clinical assessments be adding more registered nursing staff; and
  • Stop the four year erosion in housekeeping, laundry, maintenance and other services.
Janet Lambert
From the desk of Executive Director Janet Lambert
Your MPP needs to hear from you now on long term care.

Within a few weeks the provincial government is expected to table its new budget – likely in late March. This will determine if government will fund homes for the additional staff and supplies they require to meet resident care needs.

OLTCA and its member homes have launched a major campaign asking government to provide an extra $513 million in operating funding in the 2008/2009 budget. This funding will allow homes to respond to care and service priorities that impact residents throughout the day, every day. (see box)

In the past, government funding initiatives in long term care have often been directed at a single issue. These band-aid approaches leave other substantial resident needs unmet.

Homes are being asked to provide care and services for an older, frailer resident with increasingly complex medical and psychological needs. The time has come for government to provide the funding required for homes to make a real difference against these needs now.

We urge you to help. Tell your MPP that long term care needs more than a band-aid in this budget by sending an e-postcard from this site or by signing a postcard at one of our Member homes.

You will be helping make a difference for 75,000 of the oldest and frailest residents who built this great province. You will also be helping all Ontarians by reducing the strain on hospital emergency rooms