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What Does It Cost to Care? Improving Wages and Staffing Levels in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Facilities
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Authors/contributors
- Block, Sheila (Author)
- Dhunna, Simran (Author)
Title
What Does It Cost to Care? Improving Wages and Staffing Levels in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Facilities
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the holes in our social safety net and the failures in our social infrastructure painfully obvious. A horrific example of these failures is the impact of the pandemic in long-term care (LTC) homes.
This paper provides a cost estimate for adequately funded caregiving in Ontario long-term care homes, showing that it would cost about $1.8 billion to increase care levels and equalize wage rates across the sector in this fiscal year. This equates to just over 1% of overall provincial program spending in Ontario.
Place
Ottawa
Institution
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Date
2020-06-23
Pages
12 pages
Language
English
Accessed
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Citation
Block, S., & Dhunna, S. (2020). What Does It Cost to Care? Improving Wages and Staffing Levels in Ontario’s Long-Term Care Facilities (p. 12 pages). Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/what-does-it-cost-to-care
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