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Common Sense Solutions: Enhancing Seniors' Care in Alberta

Join our initiative for a Five-Point Program focusing on home care, facility care standards, publicly funded LTC beds, patient/family councils, and an independent seniors advocate. Engage in news conferences, conferences, poster campaigns, and constituency action teams. Educate the public on critical issues through position papers. Be part of the movement for better seniors care in Alberta.

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Common Sense Solutions: Enhancing Seniors' Care in Alberta

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  1. Common Sense Solution: Seniors Task Force of Public Interest Alberta

  2. Five Point program • Effective, affordable and reliable Home Care. • Improving standards and quality of facility care. (Nursing Home Act) • Increase number of Publicly funded and operated LTC beds. • Meaningful Patient/Family Councils in all care facilities. • An Independent Seniors Advocate as an officer of the Legislature.

  3. News conference in a parking lot under a our billboard with the Raging Grannies ‘parked ‘ in beds.

  4. Beyond Acute Care ConferenceThe umbrella theme

  5. Ralph Nader via Skype

  6. Poster Campaign

  7. Meeting with the Ministers

  8. Constituency Action Teams (CATs) • Teams of five or six constituents who agree to meet two or three times each year with their MLA. • Based on briefing notes, they are armed with questions and background information on critical issues in seniors care. • They are also provided with responses to the ‘pat’ answers that MLAs are trained to give.

  9. Educating the public • Our response to the corporate delivery of Home Care was a Position Paper on Homecare. • Our response to the proposed elimination of Alberta’s Seniors Drug Plan was a Position Paper on Pharmacare.

  10. 2013 Provincial Tour

  11. Common Sense Solution: Seniors Task Force of Public Interest Alberta

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