TORONTO -- Ontario will provide another $100 million this year to improve supports for home care clients with high needs, and for their caregivers.
Health Minister Eric Hoskins says $80 million will help provide 350,000 hours of additional nursing care in the home for patients and 1.3 million additional hours of personal support.
The other $20 million will be used to provide another 600,000 hours of respite services for caregivers and another 100,000 hours of rehabilitation.
Personal care workers can be called in to give family caregivers a break for short periods of a day or less, and there may be a charge if the client is not eligible for coverage as determined by the local Community Care Access Centre.
A client could also be placed in a long-term care home on a temporary basis when family caregivers are going to be away for more than a day, but they would have to pay $36.34 per day for room and board.
The Liberal government promised in the 2015 budget to increase home and community care funding by more than $750 million over three years.
