By: Nick Liard

The Ontario Long Term Care Association is calling on the province for immediate action to improve seniors care in Ontario.

The Association’s plan is called Better Seniors Care which calls for care home modernization, better resources and access to care for those outside urban areas.

CEO Candace Chartier says the time to act is now with an aging population and 24 hundred people in Sudbury already waiting to get into a home.

Chartier says the plan also calls for an increase to quality of care and a change in the current capacity plan.

The number of seniors in Sudbury over the age of 75 expected to grow by 38% in the next 10 years.

Chartier says over half of the long term care beds in Sudbury need to be modernized.

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