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Réponse de JennJilks
24 janv. 2016, 14 h 44

Sadly, even volunteers have no control of the quality of Meals on Wheels (MOW). Institutional food is hard to create on the cheap, since most institutions are for-profit. My husband dispatches 40 meals on his Tuesday shift, with 3 others who deliver. 
The Ontario government forces MOW to charge patients for it, although you can get subsidies. 
 
 
Réponse de JennJilks
24 janv. 2016, 14 h 45

The barriers to excellent care?

      • Poorly trained and uneducated support workers (PSWs = no regulation)
      • PSWs paid not according to their education and experience (PSW wages) but their employer's budget

        Living in filth, with 2 PSW each here
        for 5 hours every day. I ended up cleaning it myself.

      • Shortage of staff: How to find, train, adequately pay, and fund more staff: nurses and PSWs and geriatricians
      • Individuals who are unaccountable for mistakes, incompetence (at all levels of healthcare), poor supervision of staff
      • Too many for-profit LTC (over 500 / 630 homes in Ontario)
      • Successful, exemplary practices and success stories in healthcare (not just media horror stories)
      • How to find more funding for hospitals and home care
      • How to manage the new system of patient-based hospital funding
      • How to address the disparities in healthcare between rich and poor
      • Caregivers who are unable to stay at home with loved ones (due to finances)
This man belonged in hospital.
There was a needle under his bed.
He lived in filth.

    • caregivers who experience caregiver stress, further comfounding the system
    • How to address an $11 billion operating deficit, a $260 billion debt in Ontario healthcare
    • Permitting patients to go home, when they are entitled to a bed in a hospital, and they receive appalling care
 
Réponse de KathCull_admin
03 févr. 2016, 17 h 33

Thanks JennJilks for as always keeping us honest.
Katherine 


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