The Long-Term Care Promise? Navigating Ethnocultural Senior Care in Ontario

內容大綱
This case addresses the challenges surrounding residential long-term care (LTC) in Ontario, Canada, through the lens of a fictional Chinese Canadian family coming to terms with placing their family member in a LTC home. The case protagonist is Henry Chan, a middle-aged health-care executive who is determined to ensure his mother, Kimberley (Kim), who has late-stage Alzheimer’s disease, is placed in a LTC home that is medically and culturally appropriate. The case follows Henry as he navigates Ontario’s complex LTC system with his father, Joshua, and Kim’s care coordinator, Omar, and addresses the important context of the LTC sector in Ontario, including the sector’s current state, its history, and the policy choices that have led to the challenges it faces today.
學習目標
By carefully reading the case and thinking through the assigned discussion questions, students will have the opportunity to do the following:<ul><li>Explore how long-term care (LTC) residents and their families experience the LTC system in Ontario, and understand the difficult choices involved as they navigate it. </li><li>Understand how different stakeholders’ choices and motivations have led to the current state of LTC homes in Ontario, including critical challenges and sector pressures.</li><li>Gain the necessary knowledge to develop informed opinions and draw their own conclusions about LTC in Ontario and in Canada.</li></ul>
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