Issues such as
- The need for qualified personnel
- The pursuit of enhanced service quality through multidisciplinarity
- Ensuring affordable access to services for all citizens
- Strengthening, simplifying and stabilising funding
These are all issues that remain central to our message to federal governments and federated entities.
However, even more so than in previous memoranda, home care and support services are now facing a critical situation on several of these issues, which only reinforces the urgent need for a genuine social and health policy vision and the associated financial investment.
Our ASD are essential to home care: they support people whose autonomy changes as a result of age, illness or disability, so that they can continue to live at home in the best possible conditions.
Our 2024 Memorandum sets out four priorities in response to this vital emergency.
- More appropriate and sustainable funding for all home help and care professions.
- Access to equitable support and care services for all citizens.
- Cross-sector collaboration between home care services (family and elderly support services, nursing care, remote monitoring, home adaptations, etc.) and between frontline services and other secondary services (nursing homes, rehabilitation centres, hospitals, etc.).
- Sufficient availability of qualified professionals on the labour market for both care and healthcare professions.