Long-term care reform: No time to waste

Last week there were two thoroughly scathing reports on long-term care in Ontario.

Both the auditor general and the Commission on Long-term Care detailed similar problems in this sector—problems that were exaggerated by COVID-19 but identified long ago.

Both reports provide specific recommendations which, when combined, produce a comprehensive path to change. As the commission wrote in its interim report, we don’t need more studies. What we need is political will to make long-term care a safe and rewarding place to live, work and visit. And we need to do it now.

The commission’s report calls for person-centred care, making it clear that staffing and leadership are at the core of this approach. As we have been arguing for well over a decade in our international “Reimagining Long-Term Residential Care” project, the conditions of work are the conditions of care.

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