Parti Québécois (PQ) and Québec solidaire (QS) announced on Sunday their intention to make seniors and home care a priority in their election campaign.
Quebec must give a real “thumbs up” to change the way it cares for seniors, according to QPwhich proposes to specifically triple the supply of home care.
The political formation, led by Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has a category: the system put in place by François Legault’s Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ), which relies on building homes for the elderly, will not work.
ang QP assures us that it is more important to improve the supply of home care, because that’s what people want.
In his plan Live and grow old with dignitypresented on Sunday in Montreal, the QP therefore promises to invest $ 2.7 billion a year in home care if he forms the next government after the general election next October.
Mr. Plamondon estimates that the proportion of public long -term care spending earmarked for home care is abnormally low and he should be at least 50%target to be reached with his party’s electoral commitment.
This promise of QP is part of the first axis of its plan, i.e. Life and aging in place. The other three axes of the plan focus on social diversity, poverty and the rights of the elderly.
ang QP at the same time conducted the launch of an independent public inquiry into the crisis CHSLD in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic within 100 days of its election.
He also wants to create a Ministry of Solidarity-which will be responsible for developing public policies to combat isolation, loneliness and emotional distress-while facilitating the participation of seniors in economic and cultural society.
Same approach to Québec solidaire
Rimouski’s united representative, Carol-Ann Kack, will make seniors a priority in her election campaign. This he revealed at a press briefing this morning, accompanied by spokesman Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.
We must build Quebec where all seniors live with dignity. Seniors in Quebec must be adults at home. It is not normal that so many people in Quebec are afraid of aginghe wrote in a press release.
To achieve this, it promises primarily to facilitate the creation of intergenerational homes and set up a national and uniform program for the better oversees the creation of intergenerational homes in Quebec.
Source: Radio-Canada