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What Canadian symbol is most important to Canadians?
Healthcare.
Who was Tommy Douglas?
Huge universal healthcare advocate. He made the concept of Canadian style universal healthcare a reality in Canada.
What did the British North America Act establish?
Both federal and provincial government’s responsibilities for health services.
What did the Hagerty Report propose?
A federally funded, two-stage health insurance scheme.
What did the Hall Report recommend?
That a publicly administered universal health service plan should be implemented to provide health coverage to all Canadians.
What is the Canada Health Act?
Cost-sharing between the federal government and the provinces/territories.
What are the strings attached to health care money?
Uniformity for coverage for necessary services.
Free access for all.
No private essential services.
Universal coverage for all residents on an equal basis.
Portability from province to province.
Public accountability.
What did the Romanow Report recommend?
Improvements and a sustainability plan. His biggest and most important suggestions to our government was to put money back into the health care system now.
What is Dementia?
An umbrella term that describes a collection of symptoms that are caused by disorders affecting the brain. It is not one specific disease.
What are the effects of Dementia?
Change in mental abilities.
Change in emotion/mood/personality.
Change in responsive behaviours.
Change is spatial perception.
Change in physical abilities.
What are some aging safety concerns?
Wandering, hoarding, bed bugs, elder abuse.
What is Continuity Theory?
States that older adults will usually maintain (continue) the same activities, behaviour, personality traits, and relationships as they did in earlier years of life.
What is Lifespan Theory?
aka “Expanders” - people can change, grow, and develop at every age.
What has virtual programming helped older adults combat?
Isolation.
What was the key phrase for the model of retirement housing?
Rental accommodation.
What is a retirement home?
Privately owned residence that provides rental accommodation for at least six seniors and makes at least two care services available.
What did the Retirement Homes Act create?
Mandatory care and safety standards for retirement home residents.
What is the Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority?
An “independent, self-funded, not-for-profit regulator mandated by the government to protect and ensure the safety and well-being of seniors.”
What are Social Determinants of Health?
Conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.
What is the role of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation?
Provide objective housing research and advice to Canadian governments, consumers, and the housing industry.
What is the role of the National Housing Strategy?
To spearhead innovative new housing research, data, and demonstration projects.
What are the four pillars of the National Senior’s Strategy?
Independent productive and engaged citizens.
Health and active lives.
Care closer to home.
Support for caregivers.
What is the downfall of the National Senior’s Strategy?
It’s not fully operational yet.
What is the Ecological Model of Housing?
People feel most comfortable when what they can do (competence) matches the demands of the environment (what they need to do to meet their needs.)
What model does Aging in Place (having the health and the social supports and services you need to live safely and independently in your home or your community for as long as you wish and as long as you are able) fall under?
Ecological Model of Housing.
What is Home Adaptation?
Home modifications that allow people to stay in their homes into late old age; increases a sense of safety, comfort, independence, and quality of life.
Who is Supportive Housing for?
People who need minimal to moderate care and use services such a homemaking, personal care, and social support programs.
What does Enriched Housing provide?
Services such as meals and cleaning services to help people live on their own.
What does Assisted Living provide and to whom?
Personal care services and other supports to frail seniors to help them live independently in the community.
What does Transit give older adults?
A sense of independence and control over their lives.
What factors have changed the family structure?
Rising divorce rates, blended households, high residential mobility, decreased birth rate, and longer life expectancy.
What is a Beanpole Family?
Fewer people in the younger generations and a large number in the older generations.
What is Fictive Kin?
The people seniors feel are as close to them as their biological relatives. This can include friends, neighbours, and caregivers.
What is Aging Families by Choice?
A survival mechanism that chooses flexible, sometimes novel, social support systems including kin and non-kin.
What are the 4 family forms?
Nuclear, extended, blended, and created.
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