dire state of ltc in ontario and across canada is not news
Dementia care and elder care advocates in Canada and around the world will tell you…
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quebec order of nurses accepts ridiculous excuses for physically restraining mom living with dementia
Dementia care and elder care advocates in Canada and around the world will tell you…
she couldn’t sing because she was sedated
My mother, who lived with dementia, was chemically and physically restrained every day for the…
50 more pics that prove my mom was neglected and abused in long-term care
If you don’t have proof, you won’t be believed. Sometimes, even if you DO have…
25 pics that prove my mom was neglected and abused in long-term care
My mom was a go-getter, she loved to be on the move. Even when she…
who is responsible when people living with dementia are robbed of their dignity in long-term care?
Of the roughly seven hundred entries on seventy-five pages of nurses notes I was sent…
hilda zlataroff should have died of old age
Family care partner Nicole Jaouich visited her 102-year-old mother Hilda Zlatoroff in a Quebec long-term…
incontinence pads put on backwards every day for four years in long-term “care”
The bulge at the front of Mom’s pants drove me nuts. “What a crappy design,”…
the story of the dirty pull-up
“Your mom’s been weepy and anxious since I got here this afternoon,” Nurse Ratched* said…
i called it the “seroquel shuffle”
It’s February 4, 2020. Six years after the fact. Six years — almost to the…