This report explores how we might make use of the natural densities of NORCs to provide home care that's client-centred, efficient and better for workers.

This year marks the fifth anniversary of OCO’s Spotlight Report. For the first time, the report provides a retrospective look at the caregiving experience today, compared to 2019. The question we considered was how have factors such as COVID-19, our aging population, the health human resource crisis, and the economic downturn influenced the caregiving experience over the last five years?

This comprehensive research review highlights a set of meaningful and consistent findings regarding the impacts of Meals on Wheels programs. These findings underscore the critical contributions of home-delivered meals in improving the health, safety and social connections of individuals’ lives promoting well-being and fostering independent living.

As older adults looking to age in place continue to increase their use of technology, there is both a need and opportunity to do more than simply place technologies into a home.

Using Ontario as a case study, this paper estimates the cost and capacity impacts of implementing wage parity between PSWs employed in home and community care and institutional long-term care.

This paper outlines a strategy to mitigate the home and community care (HCC) PSW shortage by applying appropriate funding to HCC and focusing on equal pay between HCC and institutional long-term care facilities' PSWs.

This study describes the financial risks experienced by unpaid caregivers of persons living with dementia navigating publicly funded homecare in Ontario.

Directly funded home care in Canada, like other countries, is a key element of the public commitment to prioritize home care services that meet the needs of diverse older people and people with disabilities. Yet, as these programs expand in size and popularity, it is essential to reflect on the barriers that can be created through decisions in policy design.

Teamwork in home care nursing is a limited research field, constituted of studies within a broad scope. The methods used are predominantly qualitative with a single-data collection method.

This paper examines intersections between Ontario Health Teams (OHTs) and Home and Community Care to manage changes in volume and equity considerations. It seeks to understand learning opportunities from organizations similar to OHTs that have contracted with home and community care providers.

This scoping review found 32 articles that in some way bridged aging in place and trauma.

Many hospitalized older adults cannot be discharged because they lack the health and social support to meet their post-acute care needs. Transitional care programs (TCPs) are designed to provide short-term and low-intensity restorative care to these older adults experiencing or at risk for delayed discharge.