B.C. and feds sign $733 million agreement for seniors care
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PRINCE GEORGE — B.C. Minister of Health Adrian Dix and his federal counterpart Mark Holland announced the 733 million dollars in funding on Monday, and they say that the funding will help expand home and community care, improve access to palliative and end-of-life services and improve the quality of long-term care.
What this agreement is going to be able to do in the next coming years to expand home and community services, how critical that is to to open pathways is for people to be able to age at home and have care at home as long as possible, making sure that when they do transition to a to a home care facility, to a place that is going to feel like home and is going to take very good care of them.” – Mark Holland, Federal Minister of Health
Adrian Dix says that the agreement reflects the changing demographics that BC is facing.
