Objectives of the GAIN Team
The team works in collaboration with seniors, their caregivers, primary care providers and other service providers to:
- improve safety and ability to live independently and successfully in their own home
- improve quality of life for the senior, their caregivers and family while in their home
- reduce/avoid preventable visits to local emergency departments
- reduce/avoid preventable admissions and re-admissions to hospital
- shorten length of stay in hospital
- delay admission to Long-Term Care as long as safely possible