When Alfred Aquilina brought his wife to the long-term care facility that would be her new home, he was carrying her suitcase and a heavy load of emotions.
He knew it was the right time for Mercedes Aquilina, who at age 65 has early onset dementia and Parkinson's disease. But that didn't make it easy.
But there was a familiar face there waiting for them, and that was a "godsend," Alfred Aquilina said. "Continuity is so important," he said. "Having someone there who you're familiar with, and from the same agency, and all of that kind of stuff, so you're not handing over a baton or something. The services are not sort of jerky in that sense. They're very smooth and continuous."
"But it's also not good for the health-care system. It's already stretched beyond its capacity and these folks, when they end up in hospital as well, they require a high level of care and supervision." "If you have a person living with dementia, and you're stressed or they need more help than you can provide, taking them to the emergency room is not the answer," Barrick said.
The budget requests come at a time when the government is looking for ways to ease hospital pressures, particularly in crowded emergency rooms and so-called alternate-level-of-care beds, in which a patient is deemed well enough to no longer need full-time hospital care but can't be discharged, often because of a lack of long-term care space or home care supports.
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