The government's new senior's "action plan" discussed in the last post follows on from Dr. Samir K. Sinha’s report for the government “Living Longer Living Well”. Sinha's report is labelled only as “Highlights and Key Recommendations”. A “ full report will present considerably more detailed findings and recommendations that will enable the government to expand upon and provide some specific means of implementing the themes and recommendations set out in this Highlights and Key Recommendations document.” So there may be more to come. The "Highlights" report makes numerous recommendations in 13 areas. Indeed the recommendations are stated in a distinctly vague way. Moreover, they generally follow the well tread path in existing government policy. Despite some recognition that the elderly population is growing very rapidly, there is no recommendation for expanded LTC or hospital services and no call for new funding. Significan
Notes from Leftwords -- Doug Allan