Home care

• Provincial Home Care Strike Looming

We are not paid anywhere near what the nurses are and rightly so as we don't have the same level of education. However, even though the nurses have been handsomely rewarded when it comes to salary, pensions and benefits over the last decade, thousands of the province's home care workers have not. As an HCA with the home care program for over nine years, I'm frustrated that we're "lumped" together with teachers and nurses and are being forced into a wage freeze. I can assure you that there is much discontent amongst my co-workers. I just don't know what Ms. [Rosann Wowchuk] will gain by having several thousand home care workers on the picket line. In fact, she'll end up paying plenty of overtime to the overpaid nurses who will be responsible for our jobs while we go on strike.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• February 23, 2010

• New Seniors Homes, More Home Care

Province readying for boom of aging Manitobans The Manitoba government is bracing for a looming seniors population boom by building more personal car...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• February 21, 2011

• The Health Services Appeal and Review Board Confirms that a Community Care Access Centres' (CCACS') Decision to Reduce the Level of Personal Support Services is Consistent with 'The Home Care and Community Services Act 1994'.

Introduction Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) recently represented a CCAC in a noteworthy appeal before the Health Services Appeal and Review Board ...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Canada Law Articles in English

• Senior Relies On Friend, 87, After Home-Care Visits Stop

[Jack Thiessen] is a blunt-speaking, practical man who keeps meticulous records. Most questions to answers begin with the phrase, "Let me get the file on that." He's been president of the Stonewall chapter of the Stroke Recovery Association for 12 years. He was a licensed plumber, electrician, carpenter and blaster who spent most of his working life up north. But he said he's reached a point where his skills and knowledge aren't enough to get him through the tough times he's facing now. I paid taxes my entire life but now I find I can't get the home care that I need," Thiessen said. "I don't want to move into a nursing home. Peggy Parisien, 87, said she began sleeping on Thiessen's couch four days ago to provide him the care he hasn't been getting from the home-care service. "I promis...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 11, 2009

• Thornbrook Complete Home Care Inc. v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue), 2005 FCA 22 (2005)

Date: 20050118 Docket: A-164-04 Citation: 2005 FCA 22 CORAM: ROTHSTEIN J.A. NOËL J.A. MALONE J.A. BETWEEN: THORNBROOK COMPLETE HOME CARE INC. Ap...

• Federal Court of Appeal

• Caring for / Caring About: Women, Home Care, and Unpaid Caregiving

The critique of market-driven approaches is amplified in the chapters that slice the experience of women to provide snap shots of specific experiences of care provision and receiving care. Providing detailed examples of how the socio-economic tensions surrounding care play out in everyday life, the chapters by Kari Krogh; Shelly Thomas Prokop, Erika Haug, Michelle Hogan, Jason McCarthy and Lorraine McDonald; and Jane Aronson show how funding cuts and service rationalization have undermined the quality and accessibility of care, generated gaps, and jeopardized the viability of the whole system. Providing a forum for voices less heard in the development of health and home care policy, the slice chapters expand our understanding of how general trends impact specific groups of women differe...

• Resources for Feminist Research
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 3/4, July 2007

• Is the Social Economy Better for Women Than Workfare? The Case of Social Economy Enterprises in Home Care Services

In order to learn more about the different definitions and historical evolutions of the social economy as well as its many applications, see Martine D'Amours, L'économie sociale au Québec: cadre théorique, histoire et réalités et défis (Montréal: Institut de formation en développement économique communautaire, 1997); Jean-Louis Laville, "Économie solidaire, économie sociale et État sociale," in Contre l'exclusion: repenser l'économie (Montréal: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1995), pp. 161-174 ; Eric Shragge and Jean-Marc Fontan, eds.. Social Economy: International Debates and Perspectives (Montréal : Black Rose Books, 2000); Yvan [Comeau], Louis Favreau, Benoît Lévesques and Marguerite Mendell, Emploi, économie sociale, développement local : les nouvelles filières (Sainte-Foy: P...

• Resources for Feminist Research
• Vol. 31 Nbr. 3/4, January 2006

• Theft Uncovers Home Care Flaws, Victim Says

WRHA investigates allegations of theft internally. Winnipeg police do not alert the WRHA if one of its employees has been charged with a crime, and it is up to the client or their relatives to report any irregularities or problems. Human resources director Eric Barnaby said in light of the recent conviction, the WRHA will require all home care employees to sign a form that clarifies what they're not allowed to do on the job, including handling client money. Home care workers aren't bonded, and WRHA's insurance doesn't necessarily cover financial losses suffered by a client.

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 29, 2009

• Care Home to Become Apartment Complex

East View Lodge has been sitting vacant since the middle of April, when the aging facility was decommissioned and its residents moved into the town's new, $29.5-million personal care home, Country Meadows. [...] Winnipeg-based Adler Properties has committed to purchasing the building, with plans to convert it into a 62-unit apartment complex, confirms company owner Peter Thiessen.

• Brandon Sun, The
• October 07, 2009

• Neepawa Personal Care Home Open Soon

Neepawa's new 100-bed personal care home got its official kickoff yesterday morning when Manitoba Premier Gary Doer, the provincial health minister and local officials cut the ribbon on the $29.5-million facility. Country Meadows' construction achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver standard certification, a design that Oswald says will require 50 per cent less energy consumption than ordinary construction practices.

• Brandon Sun, The
• September 07, 2009