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Dr. Geneviève Dechêne deplores the lack of political will to improve the home health care system, including palliative care.PHOTO : getty images/istockphoto / Chinnapong

A recent report by colleagues Daniel Boily and Davide Gentile reports on the inequality of patients in Quebec when it comes to access to palliative care at home. Only a minority of local community service centers (CLSC) offer this type of home care in the province, only 8 out of a total of 165, according to Dr. Geneviève Dechêne. For her, what explains this figure is nevertheless quite clear: “What blocks is politics. It’s purely political and that’s what saddens us. »

In this interview, Dr. Dechêne laments a vision hospitable-centrist that absolutely must be broken once and for all.

Without having any sign that the situation will change, she nevertheless says she remains hopeful.

Do you know what makes me optimistic? We are the seventh fastest aging society in the world: we have no choice [de s’y pencher]she says.