“The Place of Assisted Living in BC’s Seniors Care System: Assessing the promise, reality and challenges” by Dr. Karen-Marie Elah Perry was co-published in June 2020 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Aternatives, the Hospital Employees’ Union and the BC Health Coalition. This report elaborates on recommendations to the Government of British Columbia examining challenges in assisted living and how they can be addressed.
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Support the Seniors Advocate to work with a broad-based multistakeholder advisory committee to conduct a review of seniors’ assisted living residences
Recommendation 8: To ensure that the review reflects the current reality of both publicly subsidized and private-pay assisted living residences, the Seniors Advocate would begin by conducting three mini audits:- To determine the proportion of residents currently living in assisted living residences who do not qualify for assisted living (as defined by the Bill 16 amendments) and identify the extent to which there are problems related to inappropriate prescribing and the lack of safeguards in medication storage;
- To determine the percentage of current residents in long-term care who do not require this level of support and who could be more appropriately supported in an assisted living residence (instead of relying on RAI-MDS data as is currently the case); and
- To determine the number of assisted living residents using emergency services, and the reason for and frequency of these visits and the costs to the system.
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Support the Seniors Advocate to work with a broad-based multistakeholder advisory committee to conduct a review of seniors’ assisted living residences
Recommendation 9: In addition, the Seniors Advocate would request a report from each health authority outlining:- How they are using the funding provided by the Ministry of Health (i.e., $26 million over three years) to increase staffing and care coordination for assisted living residents and to identify the gaps and challenges with the implementation of Bill 16; and
- The current pressure on the health authority for acute home support and home health resources from the assisted living sector, and the potential increased pressure on these resources moving forward.
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