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What is Long Term Care (LTC)?
Long-term care services can be easily misconceived to be the same services offered in retirement homes. However, although they have many similarities, there are clear and subtle differences between the two of them. Also referred to as nursing homes, long-term care centres provide care for people with supportive long–term needs who cannot get the same at home and who are not considered critical enough to be kept in the hospital for longer periods of time.
As of today, there are about 2,076 long-term care facilities in Canada and more will