The problem is that home care is not covered in the first two to three months after a patient moves to a new province.
The federal, provincial and territorial health ministers made home care a priority at their meeting in Toronto last week, and the Liberal government has singled it out as the only area of health care in line to receive new money from Ottawa.
Yet Mr. Duma’s case illustrates how the reality of at-home medical care in Canada has not caught up to the rapturous political rhetoric about its potential, said Nadine Henningsen, executive director of the Canadian Home Care Association.
Full article at: Globe and Mail