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Continuing Care

  • Albertans Call on Government to Improve Home Care Services

    EDMONTON — Friends of Medicare, and activists within the disability community are at the legislature today to call on the Alberta government to improve the province’s home care system. Our online petition containing more than 33,000 names of individuals who have signed in support of improved home care funding and services in Alberta will be tabled in the legislature after Question Period

    Following recommendations in the Facility-Based Continuing Care (FBCC) review, the UCP government has repeatedly made clear their intention to shift the delivery of Alberta’s continuing care services to include a greater proportion of care in-community. But while disabled Albertans, seniors, families and advocates have long called for an expansion to our home care system, we have seen no meaningful investment to support this shift in care delivery. 

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by Alyssa Pretty
    March 28, 2024

  • Legislative Session Must Prioritize Health Care Capital Projects and Workforce Planning

    Albertans will be watching for public health care investments in tomorrow's provincial budget.


    Health care is expected to dominate the spring session of the Alberta legislature, which begins today. In advance of the start of session, the UCP government has already signaled an austerity budget, and has made concerning decisions around health care capital projects, including pausing the Airdrie Urgent Care Centre and the South Edmonton Hospital. As cover for these broken promises, the Health Minister announced $20 million over three years to go towards a new Stollery Children’s Hospital — an amount of funding that isn’t even enough to build an elementary school — while refusing to give a timeline for when the project would actually be fully funded and built.

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by Alyssa Pretty
    February 28, 2024

  • Daniel's Story

    Alberta's home care need funding. Read Daniel's Story

  • Karli's Story

    Alberta's home care needs funding. Read Karli's Story.

  • Albertans in Ottawa lobbying for Pharmacare and Stronger Public Health Care

    Friends of Medicare, along with over a dozen advocates and health care workers from Alberta, are in Ottawa this week to take part in the Canadian Health Coalition’s Health & Hope Lobby on Parliament Hill.

    OTTAWA — Participants from across Alberta will be meeting with Members of Parliament from all three of our federal parties, as well as Senators, to push for universal single-payer Pharmacare, safer long-term care, expanded public health care, and to stop privatization through the enforcement of the Canada Health Act. Friends of Medicare is also proud to support the rally for public health care on Parliament Hill tomorrow afternoon.

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by Alyssa Pretty
    February 12, 2024

  • Erin's Story

    Alberta's home care needs funding. Read Erin's Story.

  • Budget 2024 must prioritize home care funding

    Friends of Medicare and our allies in the disability community are calling on the Alberta government to prioritize home care funding in the impending provincial Budget.


    EDMONTON — Following Facility-Based Continuing Care (FBCC) review recommendations to shift the delivery of Alberta’s continuing care services to include a greater proportion of care in community, the UCP government has repeatedly made clear their intention to expand the province’s home care system. However, we have yet to see any meaningful investment to support this expansion.

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by Alyssa Pretty
    January 30, 2024

  • Major changes to our home care system are already underway. We need increased funding and systematic, disability-led reform in order to protect the autonomy of all Albertans who rely on home care services!

  • Sign the petition for home care funding!

    Alberta's home care system isn't cutting it. Without better funding, disabled Albertans & seniors are denied the right to live independently, must rely on unpaid labour of loved ones & have to pay out of pocket for the care they need. Add your voice! @FriendsofMedicare

  • Alberta should follow Manitoba’s lead and bring back a Seniors Advocate, improve Seniors’ Care

    EDMONTON — Yesterday’s Speech from the Throne in Manitoba laid out the new government’s agenda. The speech includes commitments to: “increase the hours of direct care for each senior living in personal care homes. And create a Seniors Advocate — a strong, independent voice for seniors and their families,” as well as a commitment to increase home care support for seniors to remain in their homes.

    Alyssa Pretty

    Written by Alyssa Pretty
    November 22, 2023

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