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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1980-08-27, Page 21Big word which these poepie require if meals little or no super- they, are truly to enter or visory are suitable for the "1"tn in the mainstreamof needs of residents, community l ivin g ar e haphazard supervision of deficient. As a result, drugs despite the fact that agencies and those who e$ per cent of discharged provide services are mentally ill patients are resentful and frustrated, and required to follow a the people who were in- di tended to benefit front the in thecatiown program,0 f a tlittle a t a n ,, new approach receive programs designed to inadequate care in many reintegrate former patients instances. into community life. Between 1963 and 1978, the Nor can one always blame number of psychiatric beds boarding hodse operators, in Ontario Was cut by almost many of whom get little three quarters from 16,000 financial reward or outside to 4,600. This dramatic support, Rates depend on the change was brought about by incomes of residents, and the a. reaction against the majority of ex-psychiatric traditional mediaeval patients are either on treatment of mentally ill municipal welfare, people combined with the provincial family benefits, discovery of new drugs that or, old age pensions. At allowed those with chronic mental problems to be monthly rates often ranging ' stabilized. from $190 to $230 for room and board, it is hard to make The problem with a Ontario's rapid dein- profit without corn- Ontario is that it promising on an- commodation, food or has not been matched by a needed supervisory care. corresponding growth in The obvious first step to community facilities. The closure of Toronto's solving the boarding home Lakeshore Psychiatric problem is to set and enforce Hospital last year is a typical standards. Existing licensing arrangements for boarding example of what has oc homes vary throughout the curred. Only half of the $2.6 million province, and do little to reportedly saved was 1protect s r"e qidreentuis.reW d, the Where redirected into new com- emphasis tends to be on munity,programs in the area minimum physical sten- served by the hospital, and only a tiny fraction went for dards • (i.e. cubic feet of per person, number of housing those who were persons, fire safety). discharged. No one appears to be In Metro Toronto, the willing to take reponsibility inadequacy of the present for setting standards of care situation is widely and ensuring that they are acknowledged. Articles in kept through proper in- the press have graphically Spection. Compounding the described the life of squalor problems arising from the and desperation faced by poor quality of many many hundreds of former boarding homes is the in- mental patients now living sufficient supply of three and four or more to a residential alternatives. room in dingy boarding • Critics of dein- houses, ititutionalization point to A Metro report in October high readmission rates the 1979 confirmed the pitture; "revolving door" pattern, boarding homes with 30 to 40 showing that 65 to 70 per cent beds, minimal quality of those admitted for By JACK RIDDELL MPP Huron-Middlesex The theory of dein- Stitutierialization is a noble ooe, The idea that it is better to care for people with non- acute health and social problems in the community than it is to shut them away in institutions was first developed in connection with chronically mentally ill patients. It is now intended to help all those with chronic problems, including men- tally ill, mentally retarded, elderly and physically disabled people. A community-based ap- proach promised to be in- finitely more humane as well as less costly to the public. Unfortunately,, deinstitu- tionalizationlafallingishortiof its goals, and is occurring without adequate planning to ensure, that necessary support services are in place, without planning to ensure that necessary support services are in place, without any single Ministry or level of govern- ment 'having the clear. responsiblity and authority to do such long term plan- ning, and without a rational or co-ordinated approach to funding community support services. In all too many cases, the alternative living en- vironments for ex-patients and the elderly consist of substandard boarding and lodging homes. Overlooked has been the need to provide many of the services that would have been provided by the hospital or institutional home, Extra special services MOST POINTS FOR FLOWERS — Mrs, Mahlon Rycktnan, third, Mrs. Don Kerslake,. first, and Mrs. Norman. Brock, second, won prizes for having accumulated the most points in the Festival of Flowers held by the Kirkton Horticulture Society at the Kirkton-Wap,;tham Com- munity. Centre Tuesday night. Staff photo War I BEST GLAD IN SHOW Mrs. Thomas Hem, RR 1 Woodham, won a prize for having the best gladiola in the Festival of Flowers held by the Kirkton Horticulture Society at the Kirkton-Woodham Community Centre Tuesday night. Mrs. Marilyn Hance. (left), from the Toronto Dominion Bank in SL Marys, and Mrs. Carol. Marshall (right), from. the Toronto Dominion Bank in •Kirkton presented her with a cash award. Staff photo Former Dashwood girl • August 27', 1980 Pop s, Don Kerslake wins Pick top Kirkton flowers renews marriage vow were Friday visitors in Lon- don with Mrs. Marjorie Knight, Mae Patterson of Newmarket and Mr. and Mrs, Paul Rader. Ben and Robin, Recent visitors with Mr.. and Mrs. .Lorne Genttner were Mr.and Mrs. Don Lockhart, London, Mrs. Robert McNaughton, Laura and Craig, Edmonton; Mr, and Mrs. Edwin Karr, Cass City, Michigan land Mr. and Mrs. Louis Thompson and Mrs. Sadie McKenzie, Ailsa Craig. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Stade and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rader spent Sunday at Mitchell with Miss Edna Will es t. By MRS. HAROLD DAVIS K1RKTON Mr. and Mrs. Harold Grieson, Loridon and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Pfaff, Crediton were Sunday evening dinner guests with Mr, and Mrs. Rea Stephen. Reverend and Mrs. Jack Rounded, Greenbank spent the weekend with Mr, and Mrs. Garth Blackler. Mrs. Jack Urquhart spent a few days this past week- with her daughter Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Dpnohoe, Mississauga. Mrs. Ken Blackler, Maureen, Andrea, and Greg spent a few days with her sister Mr. and Mrs. Garry Higgins, Mississauga. Mr. and Mrs. Snider, Kitchener visited Mr. and Mrs. Burns Blackler, Sunday and attended the Fly-In at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Simpson and family., Reverend Mary Mills. Glencoe visited Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Davis and Mrs. E, Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Bragg, Streetsville, Mrs. Olive Langtree and Norman, Kitchener visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Switzer. . Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Fairbairn, London visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs, Harold Davis. A family dinner was held Sunday in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Paynter's 25th wedding anniversary. The relatives held a miscellaneous shower Sunday at the home of Mr. - and Mrs. Ross Robinson in honour of Miss Michele Robinson bride-elect of October. Mr, and Mrs. Harold Loughleen, Toronto spent the weekend with Mrs. Albert Bickel • Mr, and Mrs. Allan Eveleigh attended birthday gathering of the Donaldson's Clan at Mr. and Mrs, Jim McCarthy home, Granton. Friends and neighbours of Miss Michele Robinson held a miscellaneous shower at the home *of Mr. and Mrs. Garth Blackler. Miss Cathy Eckert and Miss Ellen Eveleigh spent a few days at Tobermory area. psychiatric treatment to hospital are repeaters, though this group represents a small percentage of the total number treated, Defenders answer that many forms of mental illness are cyclincal and require frequent returns• to hospital, • They insist that the situationis worsened by both ineffective monitoring and the lack of a unified network of support services to facilitate the move from hospital to community. One problem is simply keeping track of, discharged patients. The therapist may make referrals but follow-up is impossible if patients get "lost", Because so many patients need so-called "out- reach services," it is im- portant tto know who and where the mentally ill are. However, concern for patients' rights makes the establishment of a central registry unlikely. The larger issue is that of responsibility. Ex-patients have a whole range of needs - psychiatric and health, housing, vocational, social and recreational. At the present time, there is a patchwork of facilities of- fering a variety of services, with no agency responsible for ensuring that they are provided on a co-ordinated basis. 'By MRS. IRVIN RADER DASHWOOD Mr. and Mrs. Don Gaiser, Paul, Allan and Faye, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gaiser, Kim and Lyn attended .the Seebach-Colpitts wedding at Kitchener, Sam Seebach is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Bruce Seebach,Rev, Seebach performed the ceremony. A large number of Gaiser relatives also attended in-, eluding Mrs. Cora Gaiser,' Kitchener and Ray Kretz- man and Bob, Florida. Sunday, they all attended the morning service at Rev. Seebach's church where Rev, and Mrs. Seebach (the former Betty Gaiser) renewed their marriage vows before Rev. J.H. Getz a former minister at the Church and who performed the marriage 25 years ago in Calvary United Church when he was minister in Dashwood. A reception followed in the By MRS. E. SUMMERS GRANTON At the Granton Com- munity Bible Church on Sunday, PastonGlen Fretz of London was in charge of the worship. Taking his message from Philip 19 Pastor. Fretz entitled it, "Trading in God's Storehouse". This verse explains how God meets all our needs if we trust' Him, no matter how great or how trivial these needs seem to be to us, or others. A backyard Bible School for all children was con- ducted last week by Geraldine Chittick at the Bill Bannerman home. About 20 children enjoyed listening to Bible Stories, taking part in the singipg, and memorizing verses from the Scriptures. Women's Institute news The Granton W.I.'s first. "Picnic in the Park" held oil August 19 proved such a success, that it will likely become an annual event. Each member was asked church basement where members of the congrega- tion were also able to renew acquaintances with Rev. and Mrs, Getz and members of their family. Erasers Unite • Mr. and Mrs. Emil Becker and family attended the Fraser Reunion held at Mr. and Mrs. Keith Fraser's cot- tage at Norman Heights, Sunday.ThoSe attending came from Dashwood, Lon- don, Mitchell and St. Marys, Following dinner, games, contests and swimming were enjoyed by all the relatives. Contests included candy and peanut scrambles, tasting contest, guessing candy in a jar, mystery can; digit contest and scavenger hunt. Personals Mr.a nd Mrs. Mike Burke, Brampton, spent some time last week with Milt Haugh. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Rader to bring a friend. Following the luncheon, contests were conducted by Elsie Dann, Audrey Hodgins, Florence Riddell, and Maureen Scott. Personals Mr. and Mrs, Murray Gowland of Ancaster, and Mr. and Mrs. Forbes Powell of Stoney Creek and their granddaughter Courtney Powell of Mississauga spent Wednesday and Thursday with their sister, Mrs. Elmer Summers. Get well wishes are ex- tepded to Mrs. Earle Mid- dleton who is a patient in St. Mary's Memorial Hospital, and a hope that at the time of this reading she will be home from Hospital. Dear Readers: 1 am going to take some holidays. During my absence, Mrs. Larry (Sandra) Hern has very kindly consented to write my column for me. So if you have anything in the way of personals or news you would like reported, please give Sandra a call at Kirkton 229-8714, The Kirkton Horticultural SOOtety held their annual flower show in Kirkton Woodham community centre, Tuesday evening. Mrs. John Birehell judged the flowers in the afternoon which 38 members had exhibited earlier in the day. A poster contest had been held for grades 7 and a in June, Mrs, Mae Hodgert and Mrs, Glenn Stewart had judged these. The winners were grade 7 topic "Festival of Flowers" Kathy . Sykes, Upper Thames; Denise Mahaffy and Meg King, South Perth; Susan Harburn, Linda Grunert and. Sharon FellluPPer Thames. Grade 8 Nature Scenes, Lisa Rundle, Janet Hoonard, Susan Jaques, Dennis Pym, Jeff Taylor and Hilda Bax from Usborne Central. 'Honourable mention to Julie Morrison, grade 7 Lori Simons, Elizabeth Rhode, Karen Gardiner, Susan Gloom, Upper Thames and Brenda Hoonard, Usborne Central. Mrs. Elson Lynn presented the prizes. President Mrs. Philip Johns opened the evening program with a reading on Legend of Delphinium. The Sleeper twins from Granton sang several numbers ac- companied by Mrs. Joe French. The top flower exhibitors were first, Mrs. Don Ker- slake Mrs Ts.Tnrrrinn Rrnrit 'and Mrs. Mahlon Ryckman. Mrs. Tom Hera had the, best gladioli in the show, The Royal Bank donated this epecial prize. They were all presented with prizes. Several door prizes were drawn for. Olive Thomson introduced the speakers. Mr. and Mrs. Brown from the. Burford By MISS JEAN COPELAND WOOD HAM Dick Jongkind sailed single handed around the Bruce Peninsula last week, He set sail from Bayfield and ended his trip at Lions Head completing the trip in. six days. Congratulations Dick. Miss Jean Copeland ac- companied Mrs. Michelle Davis, Alison and Brandon of Wallaceburg to Toronto last week where they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Larry Backus. While there they also visited the Canadian National Exhibition, Ontario Place and the Toronto Zoo. Cheryl Brine, Cynthia, Ellen and Deanna Copeland, Pamela Rodd and Cindy and Pat Taziar spent several days last weekend camping at the Pinery. Mrs. Glenn Copeland and Miss Jean Copeland at- area. They showed elides end toklabout lilies. This has become a hobby with them and they are members of North American Lily society as well as Ontario Regional Lily Society, Mrs, Norris Atthill thanked them. This concluded another suc- cessful flower show, tended the Stratford Festival Monday evening to hear the Stratford Youth Choir.. The Right Touch g By • JACK =LAVENDER E The reason some folks are so magnetic is that • everything they're wearing is charged. * * * ▪ Sign in carpet store; "Con- tinuous •floor show inside." * * * 5 Just because you're not S mentioned in Who's Who doesn't mean you don't know what's what. 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