19. Neglect of Long-Term Care During COVID-19 Alberta seniors and their families expressed deep outrage at the federal government’s failure to establish national standards for long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, after thousands of elderly Canadians died in preventable outbreaks — a failure many attribute to decades of underfunding and political neglect of seniors’ care.
20. Federal Health Transfers Failing Seniors’ Care Alberta’s seniors’ advocacy community has long argued that the federal government’s approach to healthcare funding is “short-sighted,” failing to provide services appropriate for seniors throughout the entire community — particularly in rural and remote areas — and that equitable access to care regardless of location has never been meaningfully funded.