Choosing a long-term care home: What you need to know

Ontario must increase funding and staffing at the province's nursing homes to help prevent future serial killers from harming vulnerable seniors, recommends a report into Elizabeth Wettlaufer's crimes. The report has reignited conversations around nursing home safety, staffing issues, and how choosing a safe home for loved ones. An elder rights advocate and lawyer help answer your questions about long-term care homes.
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1:24 Reaction to inquiry report
2:23 What to consider when placing a loved one in a long-term care facility
8:54 How can cameras at homes be used appropriately?
11:51 What to do if you suspect abuse
15:00 How to file a complaint
15:44 Are smaller facilities better than larger facilities?
17:01 What is being done to address violent residents who have access to other residents?
18:18 Is there a lack of expertise among long-term care staff?
20:01 Who is policing nurses, and why was Wettlaufer re-hired after being fired?
21:04 Is senior care as a business too focused on making money and keeping costs low?
22:44 Who can seniors with no family members complain to if they experience abuse?
24:15 Do PSWs have enough training to service Alzheimer's and dementia patients?
26:33 What can be done about low staffing levels?
28:12 How can one find long-term care homes that offer higher staff-to-patient ratios?
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  • @joygernautm6641
    @joygernautm66415 жыл бұрын

    One more comment. Yes there are care facilities opening up that have very high standards of practice and higher stashing ratios than legally required. Unfortunately they are all private pay with a cost of 7500to $8300 per month to the individual to stay there. Demetia village? Awesome. But as usual only the rich can afford it. The rich have always had access to excellent care. The problem is the people who are relying on government assistance and subsidy in order to live. They get the minimum, and even that is often not met.

  • @mikecorbeil

    @mikecorbeil

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Joygernaut M : Yes, MINIMAL, ... at best.

  • @joygernautm6641

    @joygernautm6641

    5 жыл бұрын

    mikecorbeil it’s sad. What really gets me is that every time you go to a Walmart or something they’re getting collections for Children’s Hospital. Fact is Children’s Hospital’s are extremely well funded and well staffed but Care homes are not. Sadly the funding allocated reflects the values of our society that views elders as disposable

  • @kenwong5619
    @kenwong5619 Жыл бұрын

    The long wait to get into a long term care home is a manifesto the lack of supporting resources and government policy! I applied to get into a long term care home a few months ago, the girl making the application told me the waiting period is about 5 to 7 years, I am 91 years old, that means, how many people can live to be almost 100 before they get in the long term care home, the system needs a change and the government should be responsible!

  • @Cgh432
    @Cgh4325 жыл бұрын

    Your screwed due to the low staff low wage ratio all these places are for prophet no matter how much $ you pay !

  • @mikecorbeil

    @mikecorbeil

    5 жыл бұрын

    @Evie CD : "Profit", not "pophet". There's a tremendous difference between the two terms. Use a dictionary; f.e., www.thefreedictionary.com.

  • @wheelie642

    @wheelie642

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@mikecorbeil It’s a comment section. Spelling doesn’t count. Get a life.

  • @JD-zb4ve
    @JD-zb4ve5 жыл бұрын

    A lot of the blame lies at the feet of the nurses union who kept protecting Wettlaufer!

  • @merymoor
    @merymoor10 ай бұрын

    Having compaction for everyone even at times when it is very difficult is the key factor.

  • @betty5064
    @betty50649 ай бұрын

    In Toronto, restaurants display a small poster that they have passed hygiene inspections. Perhaps a similar system could be used with homes.

  • @Garland67
    @Garland672 жыл бұрын

    Nobody has been able to visit LTC homes in over 1.5 years. I've had to choose homes for my mom based solely on phone calls, videos and inspection reports. It's a scary time and not ideal.

  • @BradleySmith1985
    @BradleySmith19855 жыл бұрын

    wyze cam with only local access

  • @johngilmour8945
    @johngilmour89453 жыл бұрын

    The Long Term Care Homes Must Begin to Hire more Full Time Staff, at least until the covid 19 Pandemic is under greater control, and Profit margins Should not be any part of the Configuration! it is long past Time for LTC owners to get seriously involved!!! this has been caused by their ""NEGLIGENCE"

  • @mojojeinxs9960
    @mojojeinxs9960 Жыл бұрын

    I find a lot of families put their loved ones in Assistant living when they actually need skilled nursing. Assistant living is basically hospitality service they are not medical facilities.

  • @GuttaLyfeTV
    @GuttaLyfeTV5 жыл бұрын

    why do you guys turn off comments on most of your videos ?????

  • @mpatm2607
    @mpatm26073 жыл бұрын

    Plan: Lead a healthy lifestyle, treat family right and spend your final years in the loving care of your family. Otherwise, have a well documented exit plan that does NOT include a Long Term Care “institution”.

  • @david.juillet

    @david.juillet

    11 ай бұрын

    Spot on!

  • @sharonstone8430
    @sharonstone84305 жыл бұрын

    Just love that socialized medicine. I wonder why though that not everyone gets the same level of care? Is it something to do with socialism?

  • @930Tony

    @930Tony

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@eds8691 We payed $3800USD/yr for gold-plated, Cadillac care in the US that included innumerable treatment options unavailable in Canada. Since 38% of federal taxation goes to healthcare, we now pay about $30,000/yr to wait months or years for substandard care.

  • @mikecorbeil

    @mikecorbeil

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@930Tony : It's been reported many times for many years that the US, with its dog-eat-dog capitalist and imperialist system costs more to taxpayers for healthcare than in other western countries; again, for taxpayers. They pay for non-rendered services. The province of Quebec, Canada, has a lousy medical care system, but only because the politicians, the political ministers, from one main pol. party to another like to apply the "hatchett job" to the system and have been doing this since the late 1970s or early 1980s. They don't know how to competently weild an axe, but they sure have fun wildly trying. Rest of Canada should be better; I doubt we could find worse. Well, it still costs less for taxpayers than what the costs amount to in the US. I try to work on resolving my problems, myself. Professional med. care is only for when I don't find a way to look after my own problems, and this is very SELDOM. It's happened, but it's a rare occasion. I don't know how the healthcare systems are in other provinces; only speaking about Quebec. The govt ministers are also jackasses in other respects, but they have nothing to do with this CBC report, so I won't say more about that, not for this comment.

  • @johngilmour8945
    @johngilmour89453 жыл бұрын

    air conditioning in long term care homes ""IS A TAX WRITEOFF FOR THE OWNERS

  • @sj-tg8ul
    @sj-tg8ul5 жыл бұрын

    As the saying goes Happy wife = Happy life. The same goes here. Happy PSW = Happy resident. They are the ones giving quality of life along with essential care to your loved ones. They are their substitute family. I see a great need for better support and appreciation for this line of work. As the saying goes sh*** flows downhill. It is why staff get desensitized and burnt out. More training is needed for senior management on how to support and retain staff moral. Starts at the top.

  • @pamelakingwell2155
    @pamelakingwell21555 жыл бұрын

    Do not put your loved ones in a nursing home at all! Unless you absolutely do not give a DAMN about them!

  • @dennisj715

    @dennisj715

    5 жыл бұрын

    pamela kingwell I couldn’t agree with you more

  • @JohnSmith-vi9hi

    @JohnSmith-vi9hi

    5 жыл бұрын

    That is a terrible attitude to have. Some people genuinely need the services of long term care facilities because of the intensity or nature of their care needs. The idea that family should provide this kind of care only leads to burnout and substandard care.

  • @peter_wav

    @peter_wav

    5 жыл бұрын

    Pamela hen, you couldn’t be more wrong.

  • @joygernautm6641

    @joygernautm6641

    5 жыл бұрын

    Spoken by a person who is obviously never had an elder living with them suffering from wandering and violent dementia where they try to beat the crap out of you every day.

  • @lightslights8912

    @lightslights8912

    5 жыл бұрын

    The comment I was looking for. I totally agree with you, I would never under any circumstances put my parents in any care facility or whatever💔

  • @brodiemcfadyean893
    @brodiemcfadyean8935 жыл бұрын

    I sense evil

  • @annw2404
    @annw24044 жыл бұрын

    You put your LOVE ONE in any long term care, its totally ridiculous, IF THEY WERE YOUR LOVE ONE they wouldnt end up there expecting strangers to actually care .. that's a joke .. sooooo many selfish people

  • @josephsayad4685

    @josephsayad4685

    4 жыл бұрын

    Well Ann, it's hard to say, but it can be very exhausting and financially burdening to take care of loved one(s). That's why it's best to do Long-term Care planning, so you and your loved one(s) can be financially and personally free from any burden.

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