TORONTO (CP) - The province's home-care system is getting a $700-million boost from the governing Liberals to give seniors more help with meals, shopping, shovelling snow and housekeeping so they can remain in their homes longer, Health Minister George Smitherman announced Tuesday.
The three-year Aging at Home strategy will go beyond traditional home care and give seniors an "enhanced basket of services" that will help them remain in the comfort of their own homes, Smitherman said.
"Some of those things are not medical but, if you don't have them, (it can) force you into a long-term care home," he said. "It could be grocery shopping, could be snow shovelling or it could be changing light bulbs."
Although critics say the announcement is designed to get the Liberals re-elected rather than truly help the elderly, Smitherman said the government has long been committed to home care, especially with Ontario's senior population expected to double in the next 16 years.
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