Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I wish I knew. It's always an ongoing development, right? For lack of a better word we looked at something called “blended caregiving”. We've overused the word “caregiving”, but blended care is when you work with the local health professionals on the reserve. I'm looking at othe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, it's similar to the way home and continuing care started. I think you need similar standards, especially on reserve, because this is federal jurisdiction and indigenous governance, so you need to look at the standards of palliative care so that you can provide that on reserv

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, absolutely. As I said, indigenous seniors tend to fall into three areas during their care and continuing care life. One is at home. Another is during the transition, when they're moved to a long-term care facility. The third is at the long-term care facility. Each of those

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. What came out in our caregiving research is that this is oftentimes when they need the help. Fortunately, in our case, we have 24-7 health clinics. Primary health care nurses are on site, so they're the ones who usually get called when a medical emergency arises. We also ha

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  You need enhanced home care programs. You have no palliative care. There's no respite care, and there are no additional hours for the home care. Home care addresses chronically ill people, who are not just seniors. There's a whole pile of people with chronic health issues, and se

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In Peter Ballantyne, we only have the home and continuing care. We had done a lot of work trying to get a long-term care facility on reserve, even a downsized one, so that we could maintain some assisted-living facility or something like that, because there's no support funding,

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The key issue here is addressing long-term care on reserve. I come to this presentation through both research and experience. I grew up on a northern reserve. I still have a home on the northern reserve and I do a long commute to where I work. I've done my Ph.D. on health car