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Under the Ontario Human Rights Code, older persons have the right to be free from discrimination in health care. This right applies to health care services and facilities including hospitals, clinics, community care access centres, long-term care facilities, home care and health care programs.
- Ageism and age discrimination (fact sheet) | Ontario Human Rights ...
The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits age discrimination...
- Ageism and age discrimination (fact sheet) | Ontario Human Rights ...
The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits age discrimination in: employment, housing accommodation, goods, services and facilities, contracts and membership in trade and vocational associations. Age discrimination is often not taken as seriously as other forms of discrimination.
Ageism and its effects extend well beyond the issue of mandatory retirement. The Commission also heard that ageism contributes to elder abuse and plays a prominent role in the barriers to housing, health care, services and institutions.
This is obvious if only in reading Ontario’s Long-Term Care Covid-19 Commission Final Report in April. Older adults are also sometimes denied the right to make decisions about their personal finances, their property and health care.
19 Μαρ 2021 · “COVID-19 has shone a harsh light on Ontario health care’s systemic ageism in the treatment of the elderly. Four bed ward rooms, understaffing, lack of PPE, failure to hospitalize residents. But the policy choices that got us here are decades-old and must stop,” says Jane Meadus with ACE.
19 Μαρ 2021 · SUDBURY, ON – Years of systemic ageism in Ontario’s health system that treats the elderly as though their right to care is lesser than others contributed to nearly 4,000 long-term care residents dying from COVID-19 in the last year across the province, say advocates asking the Human Rights Commission for a ground-breaking probe.
17 Μαρ 2021 · “COVID-19 has shone a harsh light on Ontario health care’s systemic ageism in the treatment of the elderly. Four bed ward rooms, understaffing, lack of PPE, failure to hospitalize residents. But the policy choices that got us here are decades-old and must stop,” says Jane Meadus with ACE.
