What can the feds do to promote social inclusion and prevent isolation? We need a mind-shift in how we look after people in institutions and how we think of people at home. There has to be a seamlessness between getting sick and needing critical care in a hospital and being at home and then needing care.
You need to be supported in your home, so we need to come up with and support initiatives where you have the identification of frail, elderly people and work in small interdisciplinary teams so that these people are able to stay in their homes as long as possible. We need to consider upstream and cost-effective solutions that keep people in their homes.
What does that look like? It means we invest in those kinds of programs and stop thinking so much about hospital care. The Canada Health Act doesn't include home care.