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Assessing the impact of a health navigator on improving access to care and addressing the social needs of palliative care patients experiencing homelessness: A service evaluation - Lilian Robinson, Leeann Trevors Babici, Alissa Tedesco, Donna Spaner, Trev
Abstract Background: Health navigators are healthcare professionals who specialize in care coordination, case management, navigating transitions, and reducing barriers to care. There is limited literature on the impact of health navigators on community-based palliative care for people experiencing homelessness.
The Good Wishes Project: An End-of-Life Intervention for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
Background Persons experiencing homelessness suffer from high rates of morbidity and mortality as compared with the general population. Despite their complex needs, this population faces poor access to quality palliative care services.9,14–21 Currently, there is sparse literature on the end-of-life needs of persons experiencing homelessness.
Opinion | Doug Ford’s social assistance cuts put Ontario’s health at risk
Consider a patient. let’s call him Sam, who has heart disease, type 2 diabetes and is experiencing homelessness. Last year Sam would have received only $337 per month on Ontario Works (OW). With the changes that were scheduled for this year, Sam would have received a 3 per cent rate increase and an incentive to work with fewer clawbacks on his monthly OW cheques.
Opinion | Doug Ford’s social assistance cuts put Ontario’s health at risk
Consider a patient. let's call him Sam, who has heart disease, type 2 diabetes and is experiencing homelessness. Last year Sam would have received only $337 per month on Ontario Works (OW). With the changes that were scheduled for this year, Sam would have received a 3 per cent rate increase and an incentive to work with fewer clawbacks on his monthly OW cheques.
There is a prescription for poverty’s punishing impact on health in Ontario
The cost of poverty in Ontario is an estimated $32-to-38-billion per year. As physicians, we know that biology accounts for only a small portion of what makes people sick and that income is perhaps the most important social factor contributing to health. One of the reasons poverty is expensive is because people living in poverty have higher rates of chronic disease, including diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
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