We can together make change
After a series of articles inside the Toronto Star last year highlighted the manner in which the elderly be afflicted by terrible care in Ontario hospitals and abuse in Ontario nursing homes, we discovered the authentic purpose for the purpose for congestion and long waits for the sickest of the aged.
Lo and behold, our nursing homes, which we as taxpayers fund, are playing video games with both the elderly and the households that have to care for them: they're choosing the healthiest of the aged to populate their centers, whilst those that want it the maximum, are left behind in hospitals, who in flip, threaten families and aged with illegally inflated charges, no matter the reality that the Premier and the Minister of Health each said that charges must no longer exceed $50. Sounds like a tag-crew wrestling fit, with nursing homes and hospitals teaming up, only we're those being pummelled to the floor, face-first, with our fingers and feet tied in the back of our backs.
Shameful. Dishonest. Not Acceptable. This authorities and its loss of oversight must be challenged.
The simplest manner to make certain that there is transparency and a discussion board for citizens to complain about one of the maximum crucial of human rights, as blanketed underneath our Charter of Rights, is to permit the Ontario Ombudsman to oversee and look into into all regions of healthcare. Today, the workplace of the Ombudsman cannot look into complaints towards the subsequent:
court docket selections
docs
hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care centers
school forums & universities
legal professionals
police
federal authorities programs or choices
personal agencies & people
Why should not nursing houses, hospitals and docs have objective oversight? Only via an outside mechanism are we able to clearly have duty and responsibility in what are growing regions of worries. Self-regulation thru Ontario College of Physicians, or Ontario Long-Term Care Organization or, Ontario Long-term Care Association, has no longer verified to be sufficient in the protection of our wishes, rights and health care.
We can together make change manifest. My motivation stems from my father's final years' being cared by way of some of the excellent minds in terms of medicine, but additionally by means of a few that were observed lacking in each considered necessary revel in and compassion, and in centers that represented a number of the worst components of the Ontario healthcare system. I also need so that you can look my mother in the attention and realize that I am doing what I can to get up for their rights.
Your MPPs want to be reminded that we want extra, now not much less safety and oversite.
Do you care sufficient to contact your MPP and voice your concern?
Inspired by means of my mother and father, Garo, a Parkinson's patuent with dementia, and Mary, my heroic mother, who has served as his caregiver for the past 6 years, I launched Roles Reversed, a blog on transitioning to parenting your growing old parents.
It is one circle of relatives's journey thru one of the extra hard stages of existence, and the classes we have discovered alongside the manner, handling the healthcare machine and network guide systems meant to maintain your family at home for as long as possible.
Lo and behold, our nursing homes, which we as taxpayers fund, are playing video games with both the elderly and the households that have to care for them: they're choosing the healthiest of the aged to populate their centers, whilst those that want it the maximum, are left behind in hospitals, who in flip, threaten families and aged with illegally inflated charges, no matter the reality that the Premier and the Minister of Health each said that charges must no longer exceed $50. Sounds like a tag-crew wrestling fit, with nursing homes and hospitals teaming up, only we're those being pummelled to the floor, face-first, with our fingers and feet tied in the back of our backs.
Shameful. Dishonest. Not Acceptable. This authorities and its loss of oversight must be challenged.
The simplest manner to make certain that there is transparency and a discussion board for citizens to complain about one of the maximum crucial of human rights, as blanketed underneath our Charter of Rights, is to permit the Ontario Ombudsman to oversee and look into into all regions of healthcare. Today, the workplace of the Ombudsman cannot look into complaints towards the subsequent:
court docket selections
docs
hospitals, nursing homes and long-term care centers
school forums & universities
legal professionals
police
federal authorities programs or choices
personal agencies & people
Why should not nursing houses, hospitals and docs have objective oversight? Only via an outside mechanism are we able to clearly have duty and responsibility in what are growing regions of worries. Self-regulation thru Ontario College of Physicians, or Ontario Long-Term Care Organization or, Ontario Long-term Care Association, has no longer verified to be sufficient in the protection of our wishes, rights and health care.
We can together make change manifest. My motivation stems from my father's final years' being cared by way of some of the excellent minds in terms of medicine, but additionally by means of a few that were observed lacking in each considered necessary revel in and compassion, and in centers that represented a number of the worst components of the Ontario healthcare system. I also need so that you can look my mother in the attention and realize that I am doing what I can to get up for their rights.
Your MPPs want to be reminded that we want extra, now not much less safety and oversite.
Do you care sufficient to contact your MPP and voice your concern?
Inspired by means of my mother and father, Garo, a Parkinson's patuent with dementia, and Mary, my heroic mother, who has served as his caregiver for the past 6 years, I launched Roles Reversed, a blog on transitioning to parenting your growing old parents.
It is one circle of relatives's journey thru one of the extra hard stages of existence, and the classes we have discovered alongside the manner, handling the healthcare machine and network guide systems meant to maintain your family at home for as long as possible.
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