Families, personal support workers and long-term care advocates join NDP Health Critic France Gélinas, who is also the MPP for Nickel Belt, to call on all parties to support Bill 33 (Time to Care Act) that would legislate minimum care standards in long-term care.
“Seniors are suffering. They need us to act now,” says Gélinas.
“We hope the Premier and all MPPs will stand up for vulnerable seniors and support Bill 33.”
Currently the only legal guarantees long-term care residents have in Ontario is that there will be a nurse on call in the home 24 hours-a-day, and that they will get two baths a week, adds Candace Rennick, the Secretary Treasurer of CUPE Ontario and former long-term care worker.
She says this needs to change.
Ontario’s CUPE has more than 260,000 members working in social services, health care, municipalities, school boards, universities and airlines.