LETTER: Make home care a priority right now
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 14/11/2022 (674 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
When will the government take people’s health seriously? Despite it being exponentially less expensive to care for people in their homes, the home care system is inadequately staffed to care for the number of clients it has.
I’m a 47-year-old paraplegic, and I rely on home care for my daily living. Presently, I do not know from day to day if there will be a staff member scheduled to help me, or if I will get a phone call cancelling my service.
If I wasn’t a home care client, I would have to be a public care home resident, meaning most likely a resident of Fairview sharing a room with people twice my age, having a very restricted lifestyle, while costing the government a lot more money than I do now by living independently.
Presently, if home care isn’t available for a visit, I’m stuck in a bad situation with few options. I have no siblings, my friends are working and my parents are elderly with their own medical needs.
The government needs to get serious with improved home care funding so that people like me, and the seniors beginning to enter the system, can have reliable care. There needs to be enough funding available to reliably staff the home care system now, and into the future. Home care does the best they can with the resources they have available.
Unfortunately, they simply need more help from the provincial government.
SYLVIA JUMAGA
Brandon