Long-Term Care Homes
May 27, 2020 by Katherine
People in Ontario and Quebec have expressed shock and anger at the findings of the reports produced by the military personnel who have been deployed to long-term care homes in those provinces. I have watched the news coverage, read the Ontario report closely, and listened to the premiers and the Prime Minister.
One question that remains foremost in my mind: what can I do to make sure that the system of long-term care homes is completely overhauled? We don’t need tinkering, we don’t need military personnel staying on as substitute PSWs and orderlies.
The vast majority of deaths from COVID19 in Canada have happened in long-term care homes. People have died alone, without their families nearby, without adequate palliative care, and without attention and care. Something needs to happen NOW.
If you have thoughts about what needs to happen and, in particular, what we can do to effect change in this sector, please feel free to comment here, or to write me at katherine@katherinearnup.com
We owe it to our elders, to ourselves, and to the generations coming behind us.
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