Identity area
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Assistive Devices Program
Other form(s) of name
Ontario. Assistive Devices Branch
Ontario. Assistive Devices Program
Ontario. Home Oxygen Program
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In 1982, a unit under the name Assistive Devices Program was created to administer the program of the same name. It was part of the Community Health Programs Branch.
In 1988, Assistive Devices Program was renamed the Assistive Devices Branch.
For the next eleven years, the Assistive Devices Branch reported to a number of divisions: Drugs and Devices (1988), Assistant Deputy Minister - Personal Needs (1989), Consumer Health and Planning Consumer Services (1990/1991), Consumer Services (1992), Assistant Deputy Minister - Population Health and Community Services System Group (1993); and Health Insurance and Related Programs (1997).
In 1999, the Ministry of Health became the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. At the same time, the Assistive Devices Branch became a unit of the Operational Support Branch, under the name Assistive Devices Program/Home Oxygen Program. It was renamed Assistive Device Program in 2002..
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Assistive Devices Program administers two health-related programs which help pay for certain equipment and supplies for Ontario residents with long-term physical disabilities.
The Assistive Devices Program proper was created by the Ministry of Health in 1982 in order to help children, who were 18 years old or younger, and their families, purchase assistive equipment and devices. By 1988, the age was increased to 23 years old, and within a year all Ontario residents with long-term physical disabilities were elegible for support.
The Home Oxygen Program pays the costs of at-home oxygen supply for seniors, people on welfare, residents in long-term care facilities and beneficiaries of the Home Care Program.
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RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Not in Canadiana.
KWIC Index to Services., 1982-2006
Ministry of Health Annual reports 1982/83.
Government Phone Books, 1982-2006
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Fontaine