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Older adults
Recommendation 8:
Work with the federal government to ensure dental coverage for seniors with co-payments and deductibles based on income or include in an overall extended benefit plan.
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Recommendation 194:
We call upon all governments to fund programs and initiatives that create greater access to cultural knowledge and foster a positive sense of cultural identity among Métis communities. These include initiatives that facilitate connections with family, land, community, and culture; culturally specific programming for Métis 2SLGBTQQIA people and youth; events that bring Métis Elders, Knowledge Keepers and youth together; and mentorship programs that celebrate and highlight Métis role models.
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Recommendation 63:
We call upon all governments and health service providers to provide necessary resources, including funding, to support the revitalization of Indigenous health, wellness, and child and Elder care practices. For healing, this includes teachings that are land based and about harvesting and the use of Indigenous medicines for both ceremony and health issues. This may also include: matriarchal teachings on midwifery and postnatal care for both woman and child; early childhood health care; palliative care; Elder care and care homes to keep Elders in their home communities as valued Knowledge Keepers; and other measures. Specific programs may include but are not limited to correctional facilities, healing centres, hospitals, and rehabilitation centres.
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Recommendation 6:
We call for a unified and intersectoral approach that develops mechanisms, in meaningful partnership with First Nations organizations and collectives, to amplify the voices of First Nations children, youth, parents, and grandparents, to guide specific actions and investments that advance the roots of wellness of the next generation.
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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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Recommendation 6:
This would determine how to operationalize Bill 16 in ways that support a broad continuum of affordable seniors’ residences and care services and ensure access to high-quality assisted living services for all British Columbians who could benefit from them. This review would include an outreach plan to gather input from residents in assisted living, their families and friends, assisted living staff and community members on how this sector should be reconfigured, and on the services and staffing supports required to ensure a sustainable and viable relational model of care.
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Recommendation 7:
There is little support for grandparents raising their grandchildren. It is recommended that the Provincial Government provide more support for grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.
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Recommendation 7:
The review would also address the oversight issues not covered by the assisted living registry (e.g., tenancy and quality-of-care issues), the need for provincial regulations or protocols for information sharing, and the need for assessment processes to determine if assisted living is the appropriate level of care for a resident.
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Recommendation 1:
That the BC government, working in collaboration with commercial distribution networks, invest $10M to create regional stockpiles of personal protective equipment (PPE) for future pandemic preparation for B.C.’s health care sector, with an emphasis on seniors’ living and care providers, including non-government home health care operators.
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Recommendation 4:
That the BC government provide funding of at least $15 million per month to cover COVID-19 related costs for non-government long-term care, assisted living, independent living operators in BC. Along with being retroactive to mid-March 2020, such funding should be in place until medical orders are lifted.