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Introducing the Ontario Community Support Association
The Ontario Community Support Association (OCSA) is the voice of home and community support services in Ontario – services for people who need help to function independently because of a disability, illness or limitation due to aging..Read more.
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Community Health & Social Services Infrastructure Fund To Bring Services Closer to Ontarians
The opportunity to vastly improve the quality and accessibility of services provided to Ontarians in their communities is behind the work now underway to establish a Community Health & Social Services Infrastructure Fund (CHSSIF) in response to the economic challenges facing Ontario...Read more.
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Steps to Helping Care for a Parent
by Barry Seltzer LL.B., B.A. ,TEP and Amir Fishman
Helping one’s parents is a daunting task. And sometimes, it helps to be clear about your expectations. Some families find “Personal Care Contracts” (PCCs) to be useful. This is a formal agreement set up by a lawyer between an adult child caregiver and her dependant parent. There are some initial steps to consider...Read more.
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Strategy Critical to Address Issues of Caregivers for People with Dementia
With approximately 500,000 Canadians affected by Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia, or one in every 11 over the age of 65, this is more than just an important health concern. This disease has the potential to overwhelm the health care system if changes are not made in research funding and care delivery. Read more...
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CARP to Governments: Caregivers Already Overburdened
CARP has been pressing governments to recognize the tough challenges faced by informal caregivers. We were asked to comment on a Ministry of Health and Long Term Care research and consultation paper outlining the strategic avenues governments might explore to ensure that caregivers in 2033 are better supported than they are today. CARP welcomes the initiative; Caring About Caregivers: Policy Implications of Long Range Scenario Planning is an exhaustive paper that proposes innovative solutions and makes a compelling case for supporting informal caregivers. So why put off until tomorrow, much less to 2033, what we SHOULD already be doing today? Read more.
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If you have stories about your caregiving experiences, either as a care giver or care recipient, please tell us about them at yourstories@carp.ca. Should you have problems with this address please try resending to advocacy@carp.ca. Please include your name and contact information for our files only. We may wish to contact you to interview you for print or to help us focus our advocacy. We will publish a representative sample in future newsletters or on the website. If you do NOT wish to have your story published, or if you do NOT wish to be contacted for interview, please say so clearly.
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GST/PST Alert – is there a tax grab underway?
Breaking News! Media reports are suggesting that under the guise of harmonizing the GST with the provincial sales taxes [PST], Ontario will slip in a tax grab. The Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC), an investment industry group is warning that this could mean that people buying mutual funds would have to pay the Ontario 8-per-cent provincial sales tax along with the 5-per-cent federal GST they already pay now. The IFIC is urging Ontario to exclude mutual funds from the additional provincial tax if the province decides to go ahead with a combined tax rate...Read more.
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20% of respondents would fire even their doctors for not meeting healthcare benchmarks, CARP poll finds
We asked you to tell us what should be done to get more value out of the health care system and your response was immediate and clear. 1,940 CARP ActionOnline readers wanted more done with their healthcare dollars, online access to their medical records and legislated service benchmarks with consequences. Read more.
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Women & Caregiving: Women Hold Up Half the Sky
According to Faye Porter, National Coordinator for the Care Renewal Project, “caregiving can place women at a significant disadvantage exacerbating poverty, health issues, social isolation and lack of participation in civil society or, lack of voice.” Women experience pay inequity and inferior workforce participation, live longer than men and have historically been assigned roles constrained by gender, and in the case of caregiving, take on a significantly heavier burden...Read more.
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