Integrated models should help to reduce long-term disability and frailty of patients with multiple chronic conditions and reduce unnecessary and avoidable hospitalisation.

other long-term employee benefits, including long-service leave or sabbatical leave, jubilee or other long-service benefits, long-term disability benefits and, if they are not payable wholly within twelve months after the end of the period, profit-sharing, bonuses and deferred compensation;

Their future is at stake with regard to both their long-term disability benefits and their pensions. I have before me petitions signed by thousands of Canadians requesting that the government act immediately to amend the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act to ensure that the rights of all Canadian employees are protected and also to ensure that employees who are either laid off or working at companies that go bankrupt continue to receive their pension or long-term disability benefits and obtain preferred-creditor status over other unsecured creditors, something that has certainly not ...[+++]been the case for Nortel employees.

(Return tabled) Question No. 33 Mr. Peter Stoffer: With regard to the HMCS Chicoutimi crew personnel who were on board during the October 2004 HMCS Chicoutimi fire: (a) what post-trauma services were offered to the personnel and following which timeline the services were offered; (b) what is the total number of hours of sick-leave taken post accident by month up to and including today's date; (c) how many individuals have applied for disability pensions or long-term disability directly related to this accident; and (d) how many wer ...[+++]e approved for disability pensions or long-term disability directly related to this accident to date?

These results point to the importance of reforming the early retirement provisions and more generally of reviewing the financial incentives and of ensuring proper implementation also in other benefit schemes (such as long-term unemployment, long-term sickness and disability that may provide alternative pathways to withdraw from the labour market) in order to ensure that it pays to remain in the labour market [7].

When my husband went from short-term to long-term disability in June 1991, we ended up in court for four days in February 1995, which was a long time.