Long Term In Canada; Is It Really That Good?Long term care in Canada, some would call the best that Canada has to offer, is a dreadnought of skillful decisions causing a near compulsory effect on the post retirement community to flock to its facilities and homes. As Canada persists to excel in every way, regularly outclassing every other health provider, they have to recognize it is indeed lonely at the top. So how did this Canada with an estimated population of 33,049,466 and home to many famous individuals, become synonymous with commitment to issues that plague the long term care community? The Canada Ministry of Health and Long Term Care in Canada and Ontario (www.health.gov.on.ca) are rich with information packed with not only a deceptively large information base but also dozens of articles ranging from what seniors should look for when looking to reside in a long term care in Canada home, to hand washing. It urges seniors to decide whether they want some type of in home assistance that is essentially a meals-on-wheels type of arrangement. However, instead of delivering tepid stroganoff and burnt apple pie, these mobile medical people will give you two-scoops of care. This differs of course from a more traditional residential care, where you, the lucky senior packs up your thirty-three and a thirds and half-dozen afghans and head to reside in a long term care in Canada home where you will live out the rest of you days in comfort and an almost decent level of dignity. The bottom line is that the quality of care received in any long term care in Canada facility is above reproach.
If wordy government sites are not to your liking, why not pop on by to the 'passion behind the compassion', the Canada Long Term Care Association's (OLTCA) site at www.oltca.com? It tells you flat out in the contents of twelve topic links how hard it is working for the elder Canadians. The site, in vivid hues of blue and gold makes note of 35, 000 beds being redeveloped in the next ten years in 250 of the 300 older long term care in Canada homes. The OLTCA has events that aid in the wakefulness of Alzheimer's (The ninth annual Allies in Aging Conference with be held on the eighteenth of October) and respiratory conditions (which was held on the third of this month sponsored by the Canada Lung Association). The calendar is literally filled with events that all cater to the improvement of comprehensive knowledge of Senior Health. If, like some seniors, you are wary of websites you can always get a subscription to Long Term Care Magazine This months' issue has a delightful article about ulcers that is a must read. Plus the periodical has been churning out the best articles with regards to your golden years, including discussions about long term care in Canada. They also have great activities as well, like a difficult crossword. Ok, 9 down, Wax Museum 1933 star, seven letters. That's easy, Fay Wray. What do you mean Farrell? Glenda Farrell was hardly the star. Now in Blondes at Work five years later she was a star. What a great movie. |