As B.C. struggles to keep up with increasing demand for long-term care beds, the NDP has failed in recent years to move the needle on helping more seniors stay in their homes, advocates say. Article content

Seniors advocate Dan Levitt’s most recent report found that 12.5 per cent of seniors admitted to long-term care homes could have stayed in their own homes if they had got support to do so. Yet the cost of home care remains prohibitive for many families.

Unlike Ontario and Alberta, where home care is free, B.C. charges $10,000 a year for a senior making $31,000 a year to get only one hour of care a day. This has led to a 10 per cent decline in the number of seniors receiving home care over the past five years.

“We recommended that they eliminate the copayment altogether, but especial

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