The private cost of long-term care in Canada : where you live matters (2010)

Published in October, 2010 in the SEDAP research series, this paper explores the Canadian economic experience access to long-term care health care. The authors found that the private cost of long-term care differs greatly across the country, and within provinces, with substantial variation, depending on income level, marital status, and, in Quebec alone, on assets owned. A non-married person with average income would pay more than twice as much in the Atlantic provinces as in Quebec, while a couple with one in care would pay almost four times as much in Newfoundland as in Alberta


The Program for Research on Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population (SEDAP) is an
interdisciplinary research program centred at McMaster University with co-investigators at seventeen other
universities in Canada and abroad. The SEDAP Research Paper series provides a vehicle for distributing
the results of studies undertaken by those associated with the program.

http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/sedap/p/sedap277.pdf