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For Seniors
Your B.C. Government is helping seniors stay healthier, more active and more independent by making record investments in housing, in-home supports, assisted living and other important programs.
What your B.C. Government is Doing for Seniors:
- Launched Seniors in BC: A Healthy Living Framework, outlining four cornerstone priorities in supporting the Province's aging population.
- Your B.C. Government has established 18 ActNowBC seniors community parks across the province, designed especially for seniors to help them stay mobile, physically active and healthy.
- The Province has built over 13,000 new or replacement beds for residential care, supportive housing and assisted living since 2001. This number includes over 6,000 net new beds and units.
- Wait times to access residential care have decreased from one year in 2001 to 15-90 days today.
- Added $247 million to the home support/home care budget bringing the total to $651 million this year – a 61 per cent increase since 2001.
- Increased funding for residential care and assisted living by almost $440 million – a 37 per cent increase since 2001.
- The Province has followed through on our commitment to post care facility reports online because we're committed to maximum transparency and accountability in the health system.
- Your B.C. Government is committed to establishing a registry for residential care aides so that British Columbians will be confident that when a care aide is disciplined by one care facility, it's tracked and shows up if they attempt to work at another care facility.
- Doubled Shelter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) rent subsidy program for seniors, which provides an annual rental subsidy of $1,800 to over 15,700 seniors (3,700 more than in 2001).
- Increased the home owner grant by $100 and eliminated the threshold for low-income seniors, veterans and the disabled.
- The Province has partnered with the United Way of the Lower Mainland to develop and implement non-medical home support like shopping, gardening and running errands, to help seniors live longer in their own homes.
- The Province has launched more resources to prevent seniors from falls, one of the greatest injury risks that seniors face. This includes establishing the Centre of Excellence on Mobility, Fall Prevention and Injury in Aging.
- Also, to help educate health care professionals who work with seniors, we've launched a first of its kind fall prevention web course in partnership with the federal government.
