Canada Moves Toward Self-Directed Health Care

The Canadian province Ontario has empowered patients and their caregivers to control the types of services they receive at home, The Canadian Press reports. The self-directed care program will start with pilot projects first with the goal "to give patients and their caregivers more flexibility and control over the care they receive by involving them more in the planning and coordination at the start." Additional funding will provide 80,000 additional nursing hours for patients with more complex needs so they can stay at home instead of being cared for at a hospital or nursing home.