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Closing the gaps: Advancing emergency preparedness, response and recovery for older adults
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy14384
- Date
- 2020-12-15
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
- Health systems, system funding and performance
and official endorsement of this work.
5 ORGANIZATIONAL ENDORSEMENTS
CARERS CANADA
PROCHES AIDANTS au CANADA
6CLOSING THE GAPS: ADVANCING EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY FOR OLDER ADULTS
Long Term & Continuing Care
Association of Manitoba
L’Association de soins continus
et à
- Policy Type
- Policy endorsement
- Date
- 2020-12-15
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
- Health systems, system funding and performance
- Our Focus
- Aging
- Workforce planning
Documents
CMA pre-budget submission
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy14259
- Date
- 2020-08-07
- Topics
- Physician practice, compensation, forms
- Health information and e-health
- Health care and patient safety
- Health systems, system funding and performance
.
RECOMMENDATION 3
That the government act on our collective learned lessons regarding our approach to seniors care
and create a national demographic top-up to the Canada Health Transfer and establish a
Seniors Care Benefit.
RECOMMENDATION 4
That the government recognize the unique risks and financial
- Policy Type
- Parliamentary submission
- Date
- 2020-08-07
- Topics
- Physician practice, compensation, forms
- Health information and e-health
- Health care and patient safety
- Health systems, system funding and performance
- Our Focus
- Workforce planning
Palliative care
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy11809
- Last Reviewed
- 2020-02-29
- Date
- 2015-10-03
- Topics
- Ethics and medical professionalism
physicians require basic skills in palliative care.
Palliative consultants and physicians who frequently care for patients with
chronic illnesses and/or frail seniors require enhanced skills.
Palliative medicine specialists and palliative medicine educators require expert
skills.
More broadly
Advancing inclusion and quality of life for seniors
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy13729
- Date
- 2017-10-26
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
- Health systems, system funding and performance
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2 – Advancing Inclusion and Quality of Life for Seniors
President’s Message
Members of the committee:
Canadians are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. The number of seniors expected to need help or care in
the next 30 years will double, placing an unprecedented
- Policy Type
- Parliamentary submission
- Date
- 2017-10-26
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
- Health systems, system funding and performance
- Our Focus
- Aging
Documents
CMA letter to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights on Bill C-295, an Act to amend the Criminal Code (neglect of vulnerable adults)
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy14497
- Date
- 2023-05-25
- Topics
- Ethics and medical professionalism
Criminal Code to create an
offence for long-term care facilities, their owners and their managers that fail to provide the necessaries of
life to residents of the facilities.
As we all witnessed during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic, many elderly persons living in
residential care
- Policy Type
- Parliamentary submission
- Date
- 2023-05-25
- Our Focus
- Aging
- Physician wellness and safety
Documents
The future of care for Canada’s older adults
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy14441
- Date
- 2021-06-23
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
their choice and chosen trajectory in aging. If the federal government, in collaboration with the provinces,
makes that 180 degree shift and supports home and community care, it would reduce the strain on the system
and save an estimated $794 million per year.
Seniors Care Benefit: Greatly
Health and health care for an aging population
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy11061
- Last Reviewed
- 2018-03-03
- Date
- 2013-12-07
- Topics
- Health care and patient safety
- Health systems, system funding and performance
specific actions that could be taken to further these three
goals. Its recommendations complement those made in other CMA policies,
including those on “Funding the Continuum of Care” (2009), Optimal Prescribing
(2010) and Medication Use and Seniors (Update 2011).
1
Public
- Policy Type
- Policy document
- Last Reviewed
- 2018-03-03
- Date
- 2013-12-07
- Replaces
- PD00-03 - Principles for medical care of older persons
- Our Focus
- Aging
- Workforce planning
Documents
Improving long-term care for people in Canada
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy14246
- Date
- 2020-06-01
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
of Seniors
Employment and Social Development Canada
Subject: Improving Long-term Care for People in Canada
Dear Minister Hajdu and Minister Schulte,
We are writing to you with recommendations for responding to the staggering effects
COVID-19 has had on our health-care
Improving seniors care in an era of surplus. 2014-2015 pre-budget brief
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy11211
- Date
- 2014-08-06
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
Une population en santé et une profession
médicale dynamique
Improving Seniors Care in an Era of Surplus
Canadian Medical Association:
2014-2015 pre-budget consultation submission to
the House of
Meeting the demographic challenge: Investments in seniors care
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy13924
- Date
- 2018-08-03
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
CMA submission:
MEETING THE DEMOGRAPHIC
CHALLENGE: INVESTMENTS IN
SENIORS CARE
Pre-budget submission to the House
of Commons Standing Committee
on Finance
August 3, 2018
National standards for long-term care: The art of the possible?
https://policybase.cma.ca/link/policy14383
- Date
- 2020-12-08
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
- Health systems, system funding and performance
. 23, 2020.
“The Government will also:
• Work with the provinces and territories to set new, national standards for long-term care so
that seniors get the best support possible;
• And take additional action to help people stay in their homes longer.”7
Before a teleconference with the
- Policy Type
- Policy endorsement
- Date
- 2020-12-08
- Topics
- Population health, health equity, public health
- Health systems, system funding and performance
- Our Focus
- Aging