Re: Need advice re:LTC in London ON
If LTC in Ontario is anything like LTC in Alberta, hmm.
If you can PAY and I do mean PAY you can go private and get what you want.
If you are looking for provincially funded, you basically have to accept the first bed offered and remain on the list for facility of choice and move when a bed becomes available. This basically depends on waiting for someone to die or to move on to a different level of care. So it can take a while.
A lot depends on the assessment done when she went on the list. Is she only aggressive toward you father, from the sounds of it no as she had to leave respite.
Dumping in Emergency is often seen as a way to move someone through the system faster. Health authorities try to place the patient quickly due to the cost of keeping them in an active treatment bed. But even then the wait can be 90 plus days. She will have her meds adjusted because the staff in acute care have sick patients to care for and are not geriatric specialists to care for her. She may well be discharged home depending on the bed situation.
Some Altzheimer facilities are really good BUT admission is often dealt with case by case. I know of one facility that is beautiful, clean, and has a great reputation. But here's the snag, no incontinent, no diabetic, or violent patients are admitted. Once these symptoms develop the patients are moved through the system to a more secure unit.
So basically, you are at the mercy of a system that is overburdened at the best of times. People magically expect a place to be available because they need it now.
One important thing to remember is now you are a daughter and not a pharmacist. Nothing is going to go against you faster than you doing a meds assessment of you mother. The staff are dealing with her at times you never see her.
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