How do you feel about the number of different personal care staff you have had?
How clients rated if home and community care services helped them stay at home, in a 2019 survey. (see data definition)
Interactive Infographic
Client Type
Age
Geography
Zone
What do you think?
Why does living independently matter for home and community care clients?
Are there differences between zones? Between mainly rural and urban zones? What factors could account for these differences?
Understanding “help to stay at home”
In a survey conducted from October 2018 to March 2019, Health Quality Alberta asked clients receiving home and community care:
Thinking of the home care services you received through a government home care program, did these services help you stay at home?
Clients could choose “Yes / No / Not sure”
The question further clarifies that “stay at home” means that it enabled the client to stay out of a hospital, continuing care home or hospice. And by government home and community care program, we mean services arranged through Alberta Health Services.
Home and community care helps people remain well, safe, and independent in their home for as long as possible. The care philosophy promotes client independence, and supplements care and supports provided by families and community services. This measure helps understand if home and community care is meeting its fundamental objective to support clients to live at home independently for as long as possible.
Considerations when viewing the results:
This data reflects the experiences of seniors aged 65+ receiving long term supportive and maintenance care and are among the largest groups of home and community care clients.
There are a number of factors providers and leaders can consider to better understand and improve client experiences with home and community care helping them stay at home. Some questions they could ask before taking action include:
What may be some reasons why a client feels that home and community care is not enabling them to stay at home?
Thinking about your organization, what care and services are available to meet your clients’ wishes and needs? What are the gaps between the answers to these two questions (client-identified gaps in care or services and the current home and community care basket of services)?
What changes would need to be made to address these gap between what would support clients to stay at home as long as possible and what is offered through the home and community care program? Which of those potential changes are within your control? What community services might be available to assist?
For information about Health Quality Alberta’s Alberta Seniors Home Care Client Survey, please visit Health Quality Alberta’s website.
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Estimated current emergency department wait times
Please note that this is a Health Quality Alberta website reporting historical information about the 16 busiest emergency departments in Alberta.
If you are looking for estimated current emergency department wait times
please go to this Alberta Health Services site.
