Specific Topics of Lobbying Communications
Advocacy regarding provincial healthcare policy, funding, and program reforms affecting older adults in British Columbia, specifically:
• Promoting increased investments in home care and adoption of a "home first" model of care to reduce unnecessary emergency room visits and acute care hospital admissions among seniors.
• Recommending expanded provincial programs and incentives supporting fall prevention strategies, including tax measures, grants, and funding for safe and accessible home modifications designed to reduce injuries, hospitalizations, surgeries, rehabilitation demands, and mortality associated with falls.
• Advocating for enhanced public funding and universal access to preventative vaccination programs for seniors, consistent with Health Canada and NACI recommendations, including vaccines related to influenza, RSV, shingles, pneumococcal disease, and COVID-19.
• Supporting policies that expand the supply, recruitment, and retention of healthcare professionals, including personal support workers, family physicians, geriatric specialists, and surgical capacity relevant to aging populations, with the objective of improving care access, reducing wait times, and improving patient outcomes.
• Encouraging modernization of long-term care models, including transitioning from task-based care delivery toward individualized, person-centred care, and strengthening behavioural and complex-care supports for residents.
Intended Outcomes
Development, establishment, amendment, or termination of provincial programs, policies, directives, funding priorities, and healthcare delivery frameworks of the Government of British Columbia or Provincial entities, including decisions related to:
• Healthcare funding and budget allocations
• Seniors’ health programs and services
• Preventative health strategies
• Workforce planning and health human resources
• Long-term care policy and regulation
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- Development of any legislative proposal by the government of British Columbia, a Provincial entity or a member of the Legislative Assembly
- Introduction, amendment, passage or defeat of any Bill or resolution in or before the Legislative Assembly
- Development or enactment of any regulation, including the enactment of a regulation for the purposes of amending or repealing a regulation
- Development, establishment, amendment or termination of any program, policy, directive or guideline of the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
- Decision by the Executive Council or a member of the Executive Council to have the private sector instead of the Crown provide goods or services to the government of British Columbia or a Provincial entity
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COVID-19, Cannabis, Children and Families, Colleges & Universities, Consumer Issues, Emergency Preparedness, Employment and Training, Finances and Budgets, Financial Institutions, Health, Hospitals, Housing, Municipal Affairs, Privatization and Outsourcing, Senior Citizens, Sports and Recreation, Taxation and Finance
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