Another call for a four-hour care standard in Ontario

Registered Practical Nurses and Personal Support Workers in Ontario are calling for all political parties to support legislation mandating a four-hour care standard.

They say a provincial consultation on dementia care announced this week by province looks good on paper, but action is needed now for tens of thousands of long-term care residents and home care patients living with dementia.

Amanda Farrow-Giroux, an RPN from North Bay says more discussion is not what long-term care residents living with dementia need.

She was among the more than 250 delegates at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) health care workers conference in London, who are calling for non-partisan cooperation between Ontario’s elected parties to support legislation mandating a four-hour care standard similar to the Time to Care Act (Bill 188), a private members Bill introduced last spring.