Healthcare advocates revealed plans Monday to launch a constitutional challenge to an Ontario law that allows some elderly hospital patients to be discharged to a nursing home they did not choose.
The Ontario Health Coalition and the Advocacy Centre for the Elderly are leading the legal challenge against the legislation, which was passed in late August and is now in effect.
Advocates say the law allows hospitals to override patient consent and could see elderly people in northern regions sent as far as 150 kilometres from home, or further if there are no beds available.
