The Ontario Long Term Care Association's annual report says availability of staff, out-of-date infrastructure, inspections, in-home altercations and incidents, and antipsychotics are all impacting the sector. The report also outlines that 90% of long-term care residents have some form of cognitive impairment and points out the proportion of residents that have Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia has grown by 64% since 2011. As of 2017, there were nearly 34,000 people waiting for a bed, with the average wait time for placement at 143 days. In 2017, the province announced funding for 30,000 more long-term care beds over the next decade, with 5,000 of those in the next four years. The association's report, for its part, calls for 10,000 new beds over the next five years.
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