- by Meg Dean
I care for my 95 year old mother with dementia in her home full time.
I don't think the government is getting to the root causes of the PSW shortages. They seem to believe it is entirely a matter of getting enough people trained and providing perhaps inadequate pay increases. I think that retention is a major ...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
At Owen Sound City Council's last meeting, Deputy Mayor and Grey County Councillor Brian O'Leary reported that he had suggested to the county's Mental Health and Addictions Task Force that the Ontario school curriculum be changed to “fill a void.” In particular, he wanted to add education on the dangers of tobacco and drugs, and “a mental health education curriculum beginning in primary school.”
It is shocking that no one on the Task Force, including the Medical Officer of Health, nor MPP Bill Walker whose government implemented the most recent revision to Ontario's Physical Education and Health Curriculum in 2019, seem to know what is in it. ...
- by Kathy Barratt
On April 26, 2022 a very dear friend of mine fell and fractured her shoulder.
She was 85 years old and living on her own in her apartment with full expectations of remaining there for the near future. ...
- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor
James and Hazel are looking for a home. It's as simple as that.
The father and daughter were sub-letting a room from someone who ended up being incarcerated during the pandemic. The landlord took back the apartment, and the two have been living in a 10 x 12 motel room which James says will not be available to them after Monday, May 9 at 11 a.m. ...
- by Andrea Donaldson
Harm reduction comes before treatment centres because there are not enough beds in any facility to accommodate the amount of active addicts there are in each town/city.
Without harm reduction there would be a lot more fatal overdoses then there are already. ...
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