Editorial: Home care needs our help, badly

It’s quite a feat to mismanage an important health care sector in a way that leaves both workers and patients dissatisfied ­– with no real plan to fix it – but that’s the situation in Ontario home care.
As Citizen reporter Joanne Laucius recently detailed, it has become difficult to attract and retain Personal Support Workers in the numbers necessary to meet the demands of an aging population. Support workers complain of low pay, lack of respect, lack of professional