“We don't have the staff to look after them, and number one, we can't build enough to meet the needs,' says Dr. Roger Butler, medical lead for the N.L. home dementia care program, says of more LTC homes. 'All we're doing is pissing in the wind.'
The first time Mallory Wilson saw her father after COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in July 2020.ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — It was an otherwise great New Year’s Eve in 2018, with celebratory drinks among loved ones.
“He couldn’t sit still or lie down,” she recalls. “And when we tried to explain it to him, he took a swing at mom.”That’s when her mother told her it was a nearly nightly affair.Having her father Nicholas, who had dementia, move into a long term care home was difficult, Mallory Wilson said. But she doesn't want long term health care facilities to be seen as a bad thing."We're so thankful that we were able to get him in and have care for him when we weren't capable.
But if this had been Denmark, rather than Newfoundland and Labrador, there would have been no long-term care home for him to go to. Or, at least, it wouldn’t have looked in any way, shape or form like it does in this province.Butler is the medical lead for the provincial home dementia care program and helped author the ‘Aging Population’ section of the Health Accord.‘Like a ghost’: St.
“Now, no nursing homes. They look at alternate home arrangements and they have boosted their community supports like crazy. And they do it at two-thirds of the costs we're currently doing it at.” He would also go on to investigate how to treat seniors coming into the emergency department more appropriately.
“ said to his colleagues on the floor, 'Why don’t you discharge those people and I'll follow them at home,'” Butler said. “We've got to say, 'Our current thinking is failing us. We cannot afford to spend another billion dollars a year on nursing homes. We don't have the money.' The cost now for me to house your mom, if she has dementia, in a tertiary care nursing home, is $120,000 a year.”
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