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Seniors
Recommendation 199:
Expanded access to free transportation to and from medical appointments especially for those with disabilities and the elderly.
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Recommendation 200:
Expand home support, residential care services, and the number of residential care beds.
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Recommendation 30:
Ensure Indigenous mothers are able to maintain an adequate standard of living by raising income assistance and disability rates, ensuring safe and affordable housing, and guaranteeing food and transit allowances. Provide grandparents raising grandchildren, and all kinship care providers, with livable incomes and benefits. Provide income, housing, food, transit and all additional supports to youth transitioning out of government care until the age of 25 years old.
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Recommendation 65:
End clawbacks of income and disability assistance including clawbacks of Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefits and penalties for cohabitation.
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Recommendation 73:
Eliminate the prohibition on accessing Rental Assistance Program (RAP) and Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) housing subsidies for people on income and disability assistance.
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Recommendation 6:
Eliminate the daily rate for publicly funded home support services.
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Recommendation 7:
Do not provide incentives to profit or non-profit SRO owners to upgrade their units unless rents in upgraded units are guaranteed to not exceed the welfare/pension rate.
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Recommendation 5:
Develop a program to assist low- and modest-income seniors with major home repairs.
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Recommendation 10:
Develop a comprehensive plan to build the capacity of seniors’ centres across B.C. to better support social engagement and help support older people access the supports and services they need to continue to live independently.
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Recommendation 3:
Create a workforce development plan to address the recruitment and retention challenges in assisted living, and ensure that clear training standards are developed for all staff working in front-line and health-care supervisory positions in both private-pay and publicly subsidized assisted living residences.
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