With our aging demographics, it is vital that we prepare a health care system to provide the care that will be needed. Ontario politicians suggest that Ontario is the best place to live and the best place to grow old. Dr Samir Sinha presented the Ontario Seniors Strategy at the Hospice Palliative Care Ontario conference last week. Read the report: Living Longer – Living Well”, or see key points and highlights.
A few interesting facts and programs Dr Sinha discussed in his presentation:
Dr Sinha asks, “Is it the cost of caring or the cost of not having a good integrated system that accounts for the high cost of providing this care?”
Dr Sinha provides 13 recommendations including
Although palliative care is addressed within these recommendations, I would have liked to have seen a recommendation that targets the need for integrating a palliative approach early in disease process, for people with any life limiting illness, across all settings.
I don’t think you ever truly choose hospice palliative care. For me, it has felt like something I’ve been becoming my whole life.
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