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Parry Sound-Muskoka has a higher number of seniors living here than the provincial average and as more people retire, especially to this area, the ability to provide adequate services for an aging population has become a growing concern.<\/p>\n

The issue was raised at Thursday’s all-candidates meeting. Here\u2019s what the candidates had to say when the moderator, Huntsville\/Lake of Bays Chamber of Commerce General Manager Kelly Haywood, posed a question about the issue forwarded by one of the event sponsors.<\/p>\n

Incumbent MPP and PC candidate Norm Miller said his government has committed to adding 30,000 new long-term care beds to the system over 10 years. \u201cThere\u2019s 32,000 people on the waitlist for long-term care beds across the province and this is having a real effect on creating hallway health care in our hospitals across the province,\u201d said Miller, referring to people not being able to leave the hospital to receive care elsewhere due to a shortage of long-term care beds. \u201cI think we need to learn from our frontline people… and learn how to make things better.\u201d He said he had recently spoken to someone who was a PSW for many years and she was talking about the amount of paperwork involved. \u201cIt\u2019s important to have records but if you\u2019re spending all your time doing record keeping, that\u2019s taking away from the time that\u2019s really important, which is looking out for the people, the clients, the people in the long-term care home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Liberal Candidate Brenda Rhodes said her government also has a 10-year-plan that is going to produce 30,000 more long-term care beds. She also said the Liberals would provide funding to increase the amount of time nurses spend with each patient in long-term care homes to an average of four hours per day. Rhodes also said there is a subsidy that will be given to seniors to help with things like snow removal and things like retrofits to their home, with the aim of \u201cjust keeping them in their homes and safe longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

NDP candidate Erin Horvath said her party would create 40,000 more long-term care beds in the next ten years and 15,000 of those will be created in the next five years. She also said her party would invest $300 million to $320 million annually to support additional beds. She spoke of the ability to keep couples entering the long-term care system together. \u201cThat should be a basic right so this is something that we\u2019re standing for.\u201d She also said her party has promised to inject 75 million into hospice care.<\/p>\n

Horvath said in addition to having long-term care beds, the ability for seniors to stay in their home is missing. \u201cThe NDP is introducing allowance for the deferral of taxes until a home is sold and that means you don\u2019t have to choose between staying in your home or not. They\u2019re doing this in BC and finding that people still do have money to pass on to their family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor long-term care beds and personal support workers, clearly this is an area that needs funding,\u201d said Green candidate Matt Richter. \u201cHealth care funding occupies approximately half of our budget, so we need to get our spending correct so that we can be using our tax dollars and justifying how we can use those to honour these long-term beds and that\u2019s something that needs to consistently be put out there, how are we going to pay for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richter added, \u201cwe can all have glowing accolades as to what we\u2019re going to do and how many beds we can promise\u2026 we must recognize that over the last 11 years, since I entered politics, this is an issue that has not gone away. So we can promise all we want but unless we\u2019re going to come up with realistic spending plans and ways that we can fund long-term beds, then we\u2019re going to be here four years from now.\u201d<\/p>\n

He spoke of the need to \u201ctruly get at the core of the problem and look at how our money can be better invested. When we look at disease prevention and health promotion and the amount of money that the Royal Vic hospital health stat said that that could save over a 10-year period\u2014they\u2019re looking at well over 15 billion dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Independent candidate Jeff Mole said the situation in health care will only get worse due to an aging population. \u201cI would argue that taxpayers need to find better ways to save money elsewhere to fund our growing need.\u201d He said he\u2019s hoping to be elected because he has policies that will save taxpayers \u201chundreds of billions of dollars that are being wasted through private profit and exporting to other jurisdictions.\u201d Mole said it is in the riding\u2019s interest to elect an independent candidate. \u201cI can work with whichever party forms government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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