Human Resources committee  Yes. Acute care is very expensive care. It's something we need to have as the last resort.

Human Resources committee  There are different demands now. We have a much higher demand for health care generally, and for home care specifically, than we had in the past. I think a lot of the investment we are seeing is unfortunately coming a little too late. We know that, but of course it's welcome.

Human Resources committee  It should have happened a long time ago. We should have done some demographic planning. We should have had a look and had a long-term strategy in place. There is one thing I was going to mention when the previous question was being answered. What we need is a long-term strategy t

Human Resources committee  We're still seeing a number of small initiatives taking place that are not entirely aligned with a long-term strategy. I have seen new initiatives, but unfortunately not all of them point in the right direction.

Human Resources committee  There are a number of opportunities. For example, I know one would be remote patient monitoring. That would actually just be for, as an example, a senior with a cardiac condition. You could take their blood pressure regularly during the day. There are a number of devices that wou

Human Resources committee  It is a challenge where there isn't a signal. There are ways around it, in that you can actually do the remote monitoring and then the information can be transferred when it is in range of a signal. Communication can be an issue where there isn't any wireless signal. It can be a

Human Resources committee  We are working and doing bits of it. It's in the milieu of the lack of a long-term plan, as I mentioned. We need a long-term plan in order to tie those two together. There are a number of initiatives taking place, and I think they're all valuable. There's great work being done, b

Human Resources committee  It's complicated. It's a matter of partnerships. It's a matter of actually developing these plans at the federal, provincial, municipal, and neighbourhood levels and having that cascade in place. It's identifying all the resources and putting those plans in place with all the sta