Tag: home support

Quality assurance in home support survey now closed!

Last January BC Care Providers Association launched a project to explore the development of a voluntary “Quality Assurance Designation” program for home support providers. This April BCCPA released several surveys to hear from the public and the home health care sector about quality in home support. After hearing from almost 700 members of the public and […]

Why BCCPA is advocating for longer home support visit times

Column by Rebecca Morris Imagine being eighty years old. Defeated by chronic pain, you have finally agreed to have someone help you get dressed in the mornings. They remind you to take your medications, too. You never thought that you would need home support. But who does? You ate well, exercised and managed your own […]

BCCPA to announce biggest development in home support yet

BC Care Providers Association is expected to make a landmark home health announcement on April 9th. While followers will need to wait until next week to hear the details, BCCPA is encouraging providers to stay tuned to hear more about a development which will bring changes to B.C.’s home support sector. “We are looking forward […]

Gevity selected to support BCCPA’s home support, quality assurance initiative

Gevity Inc. (“Gevity”) has been selected to conduct research and industry outreach for BC Care Providers Association in the development of a quality assurance program for privately run home support providers. Announced in January, the home support quality assurance initiative seeks to establish a QA model which is embraced by B.C.’s home support sector, that […]

Bold “Made-in-B.C.” Plan to Strengthen Home Care Released

BCCPA paper provides recommendations to ensure that “health begins at home” for seniors (Burnaby, B.C.) February 15, 2018: British Columbians strongly support the idea of “aging in place” and giving seniors the option to remain in their homes as long as possible. But will high quality, dependable home care always be available for many B.C. […]

Exploring creative approaches to the delivery of home support

Home health care is playing an increasingly critical role in the continuing care sector. Home care and home support enables seniors to age in place for longer, while providing them with the care they need to live as well as possible. It also supports families who are caring for the seniors in their lives by […]