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2 Health Charities Coalition of Canada Position Statement on Access to Home Care Revised for Approval September 22, 2011 Recommendations To ensure that “all Canadians have equitable access to quality home care services to help meet their primary, acute, mental health, chronic and palliative care needs, and to improve their quality of life”, the Health Charities Coalition of Canada recommends that:. [...] Governments require all home care programs they fund to be accredited, and to participate in efforts to establish norms, standards and best practices for the home care sector, and to establish benchmarks and indicators for assessing the impact of home care services on client health outcomes. [...] In 2001, eight out of ten Ontarians (81%) expressed concern that they won’t have access to home care support as they age.4 In 2003, 35% of Canadians reported that they were dissatisfied with their access to home and community care.5 Canadian governments have made home care a priority The Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada described home care as the “next essential service”, and note. [...] The demand for home care for elders, non-elders and people who are in need of palliative care is three times the current level of service provided.10 The majority of people who need care in the home because of aging, chronic illness or disability receive no formal publicly funded services.11 More diverse needs Home care programs were originally established to provide care for people with long-term. [...] Theses changes have the potential to enable and assist access to home care programs and caregivers in their pursuit to take care of Canadians in the best way possible.