Long Term Care – All About Estates

You Are No Longer Welcome Here

Audrey Miller • July 26, 2021 • 1 Comment

I recently had a very negative experience with the administration of one of the Long Term Care residences where our client has resided over the last four years. The PSW’s from a reputable home care company were told that they were no longer welcome in this facility. While I am not going to go into the particular details, suffice to say that telling paid caregivers who have been providing excellent….

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Whose Fault is it Anyway?

Audrey Miller • December 14, 2020 • 0 Comments

This weekend, I put down the latest Brandon Sanderson book so that I could read ‘A Perfect Storm: The COVID-19 Experience for Revera and the Long Term Care Sector’ which is a report completed by an independent expert advisory panel. I have blogged about the Crisis In Long Term Care over the years and all of these pre Covid issues- really did create the perfect storm. The panel, which was….

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Elder Care

Definition of (Essential) Family Caregiver

Audrey Miller • August 10, 2020 • 1 Comment

While we are still learning how best to live under the threat of either spreading or catching Covid, our long term care facilities are starting to also figure this out. See: https://allaboutestates.ca/family-essential-visitors/ With 80% of all COVID deaths having occurred in LTC facilities, this is definitely too late for many families. In addition to all the concerns that have been previously highlighted, from a physical, structural, staffing and equipment perspective,….

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Elder Care

Can A Broken System Be Fixed?

Audrey Miller • May 25, 2020 • 2 Comments

I don’t know about you- but I am struggling with our new normal and the mounting deaths in Long Term Care. As you have been reading, for the last several years we have had major challenges in our Long Term Care system. I previously wrote a 3 – part article on some of these challenges ( Part 1: https://allaboutestates.ca/crisis-long-term-care/ Part 2: https://allaboutestates.ca/crisis-ltc-homes-continued/ and Part 3: https://allaboutestates.ca/crisis-long-term-care-continued-3/ and they did not….

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Caregiving

One Conversation Can Make All The Difference

Audrey Miller • April 27, 2020 • 0 Comments

Last week I shared that as of April 19, 2020, there were 112 long-term care homes in Ontario impacted by COVID-19 outbreaks and as of April 26, there are now 147 facilities affected with 654 confirmed resident deaths. This number is staggering. What I do understand is that many of these individuals are dying without their families close by. What I am not sure about is how many had advance….

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Caregiving, Elder Care, Geriatric Care Management, Power of Attorney

And the losers are Long Term Care patients

Audrey Miller • April 20, 2020 • 0 Comments

As of Sunday, 112 long-term care homes in Ontario are grappling with COVID-19 outbreaks and the number is still growing. From the 553 deaths (as reported on Sunday April 19 9:35 am), 240 were residents of long- term care homes. Shockingly, four residences have reported more than 20 deaths each and at the time of writing of this blog, include: Pinecrest Nursing Home in Bobcaygeon: 29 deaths Eatonville Care Centre….

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Elder Care