News from the workplace: Employed family caregivers at risk - Money - Browse All Money Articles.

Home care save the Taxpayer's 5 billion dollars with little or norecognition - QJ

News from the workplace: Employed family caregivers at risk - Money - Browse All Money Articles.: "Yet without the contribution of family caregivers, the public health care system would incur enormous additional costs, prompting the Romanow Commission on the Future of Health Care (2002) to acknowledge that the health care system simply could not function without the invaluable contribution of informal caregivers.
�In addition to the impact they make on the quality of a care recipient�s life, caregivers provide more than 2 billion hours of caregiving, saving the Canadian health care about $5 billion each year,� Dr. Judith Shamian, President & CEO, Von Canada, told Family Caregiver Newsmagazine.
Supporting the development of a robust home and community care program will further alleviate the pressure felt in institutional settings and help to reduce the wait times for medical care, says Shamian."