Facing the Facts: Ontario Home-Care Clients With Congestive Heart Failure
Fact: Ontario seniors with congestive heart failure (CHF) are heavy users of medications, but only 29% are on the right drug regimen. Why? Is a fragmented system to blame? Ensuring the right medication use will help to stabilize health and decrease emergency department use.
That’s one of the vital policy questions raised by this fact sheet about the care and support needs of seniors living with CHF, the fourth most common chronic disease. It’s one of a set of ready-to-insert resources with companion, presentation-friendly chart packs – with over 30 graphs – based on recent data on home-care use in Ontario mined by Dr. John Hirdes and his University of Waterloo research team. These resources paint a clearer profile of Ontario seniors living with chronic disease, and those moving from hospital to home and/or community care, pinpointing key challenges they experience, helping to connect dots and/or raising flags for policy-makers.
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