'We are doing a lot of work on how we revamp the philosophy of palliative care,' she says.
While sitting on a patio in downtown Toronto on a warm June day, he thinks back to his life four months earlier when he faced a return to the streets.
Dr. Nadine Persaud, executive director of Kensington Hospice, says the facility began two years ago collecting data on whether the socio-economic conditions of its patients matched the surrounding community. Kensington has hired a health navigator who is dedicated to supporting patients coming from shelters or the streets and will soon hire a peer worker who has lived through homelessness.
Homelessness is increasing across Ontario with an affordability crisis that has become significantly worse as the COVID-19 pandemic abates."People who experience homelessness are 28 times more likely to have hepatitis C, five times more likely to have heart disease and four times more likely to have cancer," Dosani says.
"I didn't know how to get a job or learn anything proper," he says. "I survived the best way I could doing armed robberies, doing B&Es or whatever I had to do to raise money."Ackroyd spent about four years behind bars, mostly during his 20s. He served as an air cadet, worked in the army briefly and took care of homes for a landlord for a spell.
"I'm trying to get off drugs and these people here make it easier for me because they keep an eye on me whenever I go out.""Why me, why now, why cancer, why couldn't they catch it in time?" he says as he struggles to speak. Tears fall down his gaunt cheeks."I got no worries -- when I wake up, they serve me breakfast in bed," he says.
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