About the OCSA/CRNCC Symposium

Pre-Registration is now closed.

On-Site Registration is available in the Donald Cousens Foyer of the Markham Hilton Suites and Conference Center at 8500 Warden Avenue, Markham on Thursday, October 21st from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM.

Download the agenda here (pdf).

OCSA is once again partnering with the Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community (CRNCC) to host a one day symposium on October 21, 2010.

Across the industrialized world, increasing health care costs and growing concerns about the sustainability of health systems have pushed policy-makers to make tough choices about how they will respond to the needs of aging populations.

One response, seen in Ontario during the 1990s, was to build more long-term care beds, assuming that more older persons would inevitably require institutionalization.

Another response, seen in Ontario’s more recent Aging at Home initiative, has been to support older persons at home as independently as possible, for as long as possible. Aging at Home responds to an overwhelming desire on the part of older persons to live their own lives, and to a growing weight of international evidence that home and community care can enhance wellbeing, autonomy and quality of life while moderating demand for costly health and institutional care.

So, what’s happened to Aging at Home in Ontario? Now only in its third year, Aging at Home funds have been redirected to discharging hospital patients quicker and sicker, and there are growing calls for more long-term care beds. According to the 2010 report of Ontario’s Health Quality Council, people are waiting in hospitals “because they have nowhere else to go.”

This event brings together local, national and international experts to ask tough questions for the future of the community support sector and for health system sustainability:

  • What are the major triumphs and trials of Aging at Home in Ontario and beyond?
  • What’s worked well “on the ground?” What hasn’t? What are key lessons learned?
  • Why has the community support agenda proved so vulnerable to changing politics?
  • What can be done to convince policy-makers that investments in community supports are investments in health system sustainability?

It’s time to ask some tough questions. Make plans to join us for this important event.

Date

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Registration Rates

Non-Member Rate: $249
OCSA or CRNCC Members Rate: $179
Student/PSW/Senior Rate: $99

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Location

Hilton Suites Hotel and Conference Centre
8500 Warden Avenue, Markham, ON
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