The pandemic demonstrated the urgency of the need to act now to improve the care offered to elders in Quebec. There is ample evidence of the grave failures that occurred in the sector during the crisis, and many of these shortcomings were known to have existed long before the pandemic. To shed light on these issues, the IRPP has invited Quebec health and welfare commissioner Joanne Castonguay to present the conclusions from her report Le devoir de faire autrement (The duty to do things differently).
For the past two decades, reports, studies and commissions have been making recommendations as to how to improve Quebec’s elder care and make it more accessible. But it seems we are still making the same mistakes. How can we make sure that this time we get it right? That we finally learn the lessons from the past so our health care system can confront the growing challenge of our aging population?
After Joanne Castonguay’s presentation, there we held a discussion moderated by Policy Options deputy editor (French) Patrick Déry, who was joined by:
- Yves Couturier, professor at the school of social work, Université de Sherbrooke, and principal author of the IRPP study Réorganiser les soins de longue durée à la lumière de la pandémie;
- Quoc Nguyen, internist-geriatrician and epidemiologist, geriatrics ward, Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM); and
- Alain Dubuc, former columnist, La Presse, public speaker, and member of the IRPP’s Board.
This webinar is part of the IRPP research program Faces of Aging, which examines policy options and priorities for Canada’s governments to keep long-term care reform near the top of their agenda.
Note that the event was held in French.
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