2024 Pre-Budget Submission

The 17 expert members of the Ontario Dementia Care Alliance (ODCA) have volunteered their combined decades of experience to craft this document, in the hopes that it will start a collaborative dialogue between government and care providers. This document also serves as a warning: dementia will be among the defining public health challenges of the coming decades. The number of Ontarians living with dementia will triple by 2050; no component of our dementia care system, from family doctors to specialists to home and community care to long-term care homes, will be able to meet this demand as they are positioned today.