Eligibility

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Home > Your Care > Housing & Health > Long-term Care > Eligibility

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Eligibility for Long-term Care

A Care Manager will help you access care and support services

The first step to enter a publicly subsidized long-term care home is for you to have a health care needs assessment completed by one of our Home and Community Care Managers.

To be eligible for publicly subsidized long-term care you must:

Have a health care need that requires 24-hour nursing and personal care
Be a citizen of Canada or have permanent status *
Be 19 years of age or older
Have lived in B.C. for ninety (90) days or longer
Agree to the assessment process, including the release of financial information
Have tried all of the avenues available for receiving care at home

* Be a landed immigrant or are on a Minister's permit approved by the Ministry of Health Services.

For information on exceptions to eligibility criteria, contact your local Home and Community Care Office.

We recognize and acknowledge that we are collectively gathered on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the seven Interior Region First Nations, where we live, learn, collaborate and work together. This region is also home to 15 Chartered Métis Communities. It is with humility that we continue to strengthen our relationships with First Nation, Métis, and Inuit peoples across the Interior.

Interior Health is committed to the elimination of racism and to Cultural Safety and Humility in our facilities and the communities we serve. Read the Statement on Racism, from the Interior Health Board of Directors.