In my role as the senior administrator responsible for seniors, we do a lot of work at the national level, called Aging in Place. The NWT Health and Social Services has a continuum of care for seniors. That, essentially, is our strategy. We look at the long-term care based on age, and then we determine the percentage of individuals that would require long-term care. Then we develop a plan that tries to prevent seniors from going into long-term care as a first priority, so that we are holding back trying to provide seniors, whether they be in homeownership units, public housing, or in senior citizens homes, which again, is another form of public housing, we would try to hold them back from going into long-term care as long as possible. From that plan, we will have a better idea as the numbers roll out, how many people of that certain age group that we are looking at will actually end up in long-term care. I believe that currently at a national level about a little over 20 percent of individuals actually end up needing long-term care, so it’s not everyone that needs long-term care. We have to work with that realistic number when we plan future infrastructure for long-term care.
Tom Beaulieu on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 24th, 2013. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
October 23rd, 2013
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