Fewer health-care providers are working in Canada’s long-term care sector, while the number of Canadians entering long-term care (LTC) homes continues to rise, according to a recent report.
LTC capacity needs to nearly double in the next decade to meet the growing demand from adults aged 85 and older—one of Canada’s fastest-growing age groups, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) said in a report released on May 22.
The growth of this population will “accelerate even further in coming years, as the first baby boomer cohorts will turn 85,” Statistics Canada said in a report released April 2022, with the population of those aged 85 and older potentially tripling by 2046….