Access to Community-based Seniors Care

WHEREAS access to community-based care for BCs growing seniors population is vital to keeping seniors healthy in their own homes and communities, and controlling cost pressures in the broader health care system; AND WHEREAS BCs Ombudsperson is nearing completion of an investigation into systemic issues in seniors care, and a number of independent reports and studies including from the BC Medical Association and the UBC Centre of Health Services and Policy Research document problems in timely access to appropriate care and inadequate coordination of services: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM urge the provincial government to significantly enhance BCs system of community-based seniors care, in order to ensure timely access to the full range of public services that support seniors to age and die with dignity.