Kathy Kortes-Miller, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor, School of Social Work; Director, Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health (CERAH); and Research Chair in Aging and End-of-Life at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont.
We cannot build a humane health-care system by forcing families to choose between unaffordable charges and unsafe or unsuitable care. That is not choice. That is pressure disguised as policy.