Seniors' health: Indicators

This indicator measures the average number of distinct drug classes with at least one claim accepted by a public drug program for seniors (age 65 and older).

This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents whose behavioural symptoms improved.

This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents whose behavioural symptoms worsened.

This indicator provides the percentage of long-stay home care clients whose unpaid caregivers experience distress in a 1-year period.

This is an acute care contextual measure developed to characterize the risk of frailty among seniors in hospitals across Canada.

​​This indicator provides the percentage of Canadians who die at home or in the community each year.

This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents with pain.

This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents whose pain worsened.

This indicator provides the percentage of long-term care residents who fell in the last 30 days.

The percentage of residents in the long-term care facility or corporation who are female.