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The Changing Face of Home and Community Care

 

Home and community care is essential in facilitating aging in place by supporting aging Ontarians to remain active and healthy, transition from the hospital back to their homes and communities, and prevent avoidable hospitalizations. Improving access to linguistically and culturally appropriate care can ensure that all Ontarians receive appropriate home and community care at the right time, regardless of their languages and cultures, and maintain their health and well-being.

Watch our video and read our reports below to learn more.

 

Policy Brief: Home and Community Care for All

The Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care improves the health of older adults from diverse ethnocultural communities by providing enhanced linguistic and cultural accommodation in home and community care through targeted funding, a coordinated interpretation system, and a mandatory cultural competency training. Based on our research findings and ongoing policy analysis, we have identified three recommendations for the Ministry to decrease inequities.
Author(s): Seong-gee Um, Nazeefah Laher, and Lauren Bates

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The Changing Face of Home and Community Care: Policy Background & Recommendations

This policy paper offers the contexts for policy reforms to better meet the home and community care needs of older adults from diverse ethnocultural communities.
Author(s): Nazeefah Laher, Lauren Bates & Seong-gee Um

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The Changing Face of Home and Community Care: Findings from Focus Groups with Family Caregivers of Older Women from Diverse Ethnocultural Communities in the GTA

In this study, we sought to understand why disparities in accessing publicly-funded home and community care exist and how older women and their family caregivers perceive their needs and unmet needs for support, similarly and differently across the diverse ethnocultural communities.
Author(s): Nazeefah Laher, Seong-gee Um, and Brenda Roche

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The Changing Face of Home and Community Care: Findings from Focus Groups with Older Women from Diverse Ethnocultural Communities in the GTA

In this study, we sought to understand why disparities in accessing publicly-funded home and community care exist and how older women and their family caregivers perceive their needs and unmet needs for support, similarly and differently across the diverse ethnocultural communities.
Author(s): Seong-gee Um, Nazeefah Laher, & Brenda Roche

Download The Changing Face of Home and Community Care: Findings from Focus Groups with Older Women from Diverse Ethnocultural Communities in the GTA

Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.