PSWs • Up to the home to ensure that they are staffed to meet the needs of the residents • This can be a real challenge for homes © Advocacy Centre for the Elderly Toronto, Canada 12 REGULATORY SCHEME • “Shall ensure” – duty of the home is set out: - 85 times in the Act - 256 times in the regulation (O. [...] 79/10) to the Act © Advocacy Centre for the Elderly Toronto, Canada 13 FLEXIBILITY • Despite increased length in Act and regulations, which is due in part to abolishing the standards, the Act does not prescribe to homes how to provide care • Care is outcome based, within certain parameters • New compliance scheme to focus on certain specified areas, the rest on outcomes © Advocacy Centre for the E. [...] Any agreement entered into between a licensee and a resident or the resident’s substitute decision-maker © Advocacy Centre for the Elderly Toronto, Canada 43 GUIDE TO INTERPRETATION Enforcement by the resident (3) A resident may enforce the Residents’ Bill of Rights against the licensee as though the resident and the licensee had entered into a contract under which the licensee had agreed to fully. [...] the licensee, and, if the licensee is a corporation, the directors and officers of the corporation, and, in the case of a home approved under Part VIII, a member of the committee of management for the home under section 132 or of the board of management for the home under section 125 or 129, iv. [...] Every resident has the right to have any friend, family member, or other person of importance to the resident attend any meeting with the licensee or the staff of the home.
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