Editorial: Make Ontario's election about elder care

More than 32,000 people are waitlisted for long-term care in Ontario. A majority of people already in facilities are aged 85 or older; almost three-quarters of them have dementia of some sort. Canada’s, and Ontario’s, long-term care crisis is ballooning rapidly.
As the Citizen’s Elizabeth Payne lays out in today’s Observer, staff in long-term care homes are overworked, and families and the elderly are paying more and more for private help to compensate. Yet instances of n