Difference between revisions of "Residential Care Admission Process for Special Individuals or Circumstances"

If a veteran is eligible for residential care services, the local health authority is required to contact Veterans Affairs Canada to assess if the veteran is eligible for federal benefits that may help defray costs. Veterans Affair Canada will also arrange placement on the veterans’ priority access bed waitlist in facilities with veterans’ priority access beds.

:“Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada is financially responsible for status or non-status Aboriginal clients who were residing on a reserve prior to entering an assisted living residence or residential care facility, provided the client is admitted to a residence or facility where Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada is authorized to pay for the care.”

Health authorities are not required to admit individuals into publicly subsidized residential care facilities who do not meet the criteria for residential care services. In the past this lack of flexibility created significant distress for couples who have been together for a half century or longer, and who have been forced to live apart because of different care needs.   Home and Community Care Policy has recognized this and now tries to address the problem.  

Health authorities are required to explore reasonable arrangements with the couple and their family “in a collaborative approach” to that would enable spouses to maintain and support their relationship. There are a number of possibilities, including arranging transportation for non driving spouse and, on rare occasions, co-locating the spouse in the facility.