The Minister responsible for Seniors and Caregivers, Marguerite Blais, presented her “Long-Term Accommodation Action Plan” on Thursday, a $2.9 billion five-year project that details the implementation of the accommodation policy that it presented last year.
The action plan, which takes up the axes of the policy, is spread over five years (2021 to 2026) and includes 25 measures.
It aims in particular to “consolidate the supply of medical care in CHSLDs”, so that they become living and care environments. The government wants to reduce transfers to hospitals and treat more residents in their communities.
The Action Plan also aims to “personalize care, services and the living environment”. Minister Blais, for example, wants the people housed to be able to eat and receive hygiene care at the time they want.
“For the person, a journey towards a residential resource and an experience within this new living environment must be as much as possible in continuity with their history and their life experience, their values, their preferences, their needs. , its culture and its language”, is it written in the plan.
It also contains measures already in the works, in particular those intended to “harmonize public and private CHSLDs” and “ensure local management through the presence of responsible managers” in each accommodation resource.
The plan applies to all adult clienteles residing in residential and long-term care centers (CHSLDs), intermediate resources (RIs), family-type resources (RTFs), seniors’ homes (MDAs) and in an alternative house (MA).
Consultations with nearly 400 partners enabled the government to identify certain action priorities.