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Health & Healthcare

Seniors' health and wellbeing platforms

Here's what the 2025 Ontario election parties are promising.
We don't have any PC policies on Seniors' health and wellbeing.

ONDP

  • Provide a monthly Caregiver Benefit for those caring for loved ones at home

    "We will make it easier for seniors to age at home safely with reliable access to home care and a monthly Caregiver Benefit for those caring for loved ones at home. We will make it more affordable for seniors to make renovations that will help them age at home." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for Southwest Ontario & Niagara, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Provide a Seniors Home Safety Grant to help with renovations
  • Stop the privatisation of home care and long-term care
  • Match long-term care and home care workers to communities where they have shared culture and language skills
  • Create culturally appropriate training and long-term and home care for Francophone and First Nations seniors

    "We will ensure Francophones and First Nations receive reliable home care and long-term care in their language by creating culturally appropriate training, and care that reflects their language and culture. Seniors deserve personal, familiar care, and we will make that a reality. We will work with University of Sudbury and Nipissing University to support northern students to stay and work in Northern communities." — On Your Side: The Ontario NDP Plan for the North, retrieved 2025-02-20

  • Fix Health at Home to address wait-times for urgent home care supplies

    "We’ll fix Ontario Health at Home, after Ford’s disastrous roll out, so no one is left waiting without urgent homecare supplies." — On Your Side, retrieved 2025-02-22

Liberal

  • Increase home care funding by 25%, and guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams

    "Guarantee needs-based home care through Family Health Teams, boosting annual home care funding by 25%." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Create a Seniors' Home Care Tax Credit worth up to 25% of up to $10,000 in yearly medical expenses

    "Help seniors age at home gracefully by creating a Seniors’ Home Care Tax Credit, saving up to 25% of up to $10,000 in medical expenses a year." — Getting the Basics Right: A Plan to Do More For You, retrieved 2025-02-22

Green

  • Increase supports for people who care for loved ones who are ill or elderly
  • Ensure a robust homecare and community care system, anchored within primary care

    "Ensure a robust home care and community care system that is anchored within primary care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase funding for local libraries, community centres, and neighbourhood coalitions

    "Increase funding for local libraries, community centres and neighbour- hood coalitions, which play an important role in encouraging community connections and reducing isolation for elders" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Increase funding for the community health sector

    "Increase funding for our community health sector to address the staffing crisis and to ensure timely, safe and quality care" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams

    "Better integrate long-term care, homecare, and caregiver services within family health teams to properly provide for the complex needs of residents" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Support local communities to develop Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities with planning and project funding through a grant programme

    "Support local communities to enable the development of Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities with planning and project funding through an Age-Friendly Communities grant program" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Repeal laws prohibiting or preventing co-housing and co-living

    "Repeal laws that would prohibit or create barriers to cohousing and coliving" — Our Plan for Fairness, retrieved 2025-02-22

  • Mandate that nurses and personal support workers are paid appropriately across workplaces and for their travel time between visits

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