Hospitals are going to be overrun with people who should more properly be in long-term care facilities unless more of the latter aren’t built soon, says the chair of a Terrace-based charitable health care foundation.
Bartlett said the need for long-term care in the northwest will be more pronounced because in addition to the general wave of aging baby boomers, population statisticians are predicting there will be a second wave of Indigenous-only boomers in 10 years time. “Hospitals are not designed to take care of seniors. They do awesome work getting sick people well and discharging them, but they’re not equipped to help seniors. There’s no recreation.Bartlett spoke of his stepfather, a diabetic who had both legs amputated and who spent a year and a half in hospital while waiting for a long-term care bed to open up.
He said the concern over the lack of long-term care beds grew when the foundation was given to understand there won’t be any new facilities for seniors in the near future.
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