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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News Record, 2016-11-09, Page 44 News Record • Wednesday, November 9, 2016 IT1TI:'li www.clintonnewsrecord.com NowsCl Record PUBLISHED WEEKLY — EST. 1860 53 Albert St. P.O. 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Canada 10cna Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and the Ontario Community NewspapersAssociation Long-term care need urgent, imperative There's a decent chance questions about long-term that someday, you or a loved care. one will live in a nursing A 2012 task force on long - home. Perhaps you'll get term care in Ontario found good care. Ideally, your family nearly 20 per cent of all "criti- willvisit cal incidents" in nursing But the opposite is entirely homes -- which range from possible. medication issues to missing In a recent case in Ottawa, a residents -- were related to woman in one home was abuse or neglect,indudingby found with maggots in a fes- staff, and by residents being tering wound. In another violent with other residents. case, three brothers launched The challenge, says Andrea a lawsuit after their mother Gruneir, an assistant profes- died, allegedly after falling sor at the University of through a toilet sling being Alberta, is that many people used to move her to a bed. have complex health needs, The chilling news of eight including dementia. "Some - first -degree murder charges times those issues can indude laid against a nurse in relation troubling or disturbing behav to resident deaths at nursing fours, she says. homes in Woodstock and The average age of Cana - London has raised even more da's 200,000 nursing home Letters to the editor residents, according to a 2013 report from the Canadian Institute for Health Informa- tion, is 85. Many have limited mobility and rely on staff for eating, dressing and toileting. There are long waiting lists for admission -- more than 20,000 people in May 2015 -- and the average wait is 83 days. In a nation that has more seniors than kids -- those aged 65 and older account for more than 16 per cent of Canadians, slightly higher than the number aged 14 and younger -- the challenges of caring for the elderly will not get easier. During the next 20 years, as the baby boom greys, the proportion of Canadians 65 and older is expected to reach one in four, putting more strain on long-term care. While the province sets a price range for Ontario's 629 nursing homes, naturally some institutions have better reputations than others. "Most people who work in long-term care work very hard to take good care of the residents, but under very challenging conditions," Gru- neir notes. "We know that Postmedia file photo there is not enough funding that goes to long-term care. We know that there are not enough staff and we know that the staff who are there probably aren't supported as well as they could be supported: The challenges will only intensify as the population ages. Let's find the funding and support that are so urgently needed. - Postmedia Network Canada votes against nuclear disarmament negotiations Dear editor, Canada's recent vote against the UN motion to begin negotiations on nuclear disarmament is most alarming. Thousands of nuclear weapons are still held by governments throughout the world. Many are in a con- stant state of readiness to be launched. If governments won't even commit to dis- cussingnuclear disarma- ment, howwill the people of the planet ever have any hope of living in a nuclear - free world? Have our present federal leaders forgotten the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? On the one hand, our pre- sent federal government is to be praised for increasing the Canadian contingent of peace makers and peace keepers to be deployed by the United Nations. On the other hand, they recently sanc- tioned $15.2 billion of light armoured combatvehides Remembrance Day reflections Dear editor, Aveteranis any person Canadians from coast to who is serving or who has coast on the eleventh hour of honourably served in the the eleventh day of the elev- Canadian Armed Forces, the enth month pause and reflect Commonwealth or its war - on the sacrifices made by time allies, as a regular mem- hundreds of thousands of ber of the Royal Canadian men and women during the Mounted Police, as a Peace wars of the twentieth century. Officer in a special duty area The Poppy is our emblem or on a special duty opera - of supreme sacrifice. Itis the tion, has served in the Mer - symbol of Remembrance to chant Navy or Ferry Com - pin a poppy to your lapel; for mand during wartime. that, we and our veterans Poppy funds are used to thankyou. provide immediate assistance to veterans and their families in financial need, cadets, youth pro- grams, bursaries, disasters declared by the federal or provincial government The Legion also supports our Girl Guides, Pipe Band, track and field and many community charities with no government funding. We askthatyouvisit our Clinton Branch, use our facil- ity that was built for you by our veterans, to help keep this (LAVS) to be sold to Saudi Arabia, a countrywith a long history of human rights abuse. Mainly as a result of this sordid sale, Canada has now become the second larg- est supplier of militarygoods to the Middle East, as con- firmed by ceasefire.ca. Canadians are definitely landmark open. You DO NOT have to be aveteran or related to aveteran to be a member. EVERYONE IS WELCOME. We are very proud of our schools who organize a Remembrance Service on Nov 1O and would like to mention that St Anne's Sec- ondary School's service is at 9:45 a.m. and Central Huron Secondary School's service is at 12:45 p.m.; the students and staff organizers put on being given very mixed mes- sages byour federal leadership. Some clarity and congruity on Canada's position on peace keeping and its role in adding to the militarism of the world would be most welcome. Sincerely, Jim Hollingworth, MD, Goderich amazing services of remem- brance. Everyone is Welcome. Thankyou for your sup- port in the past and your con- tinued support financially or in anyway is very much appreciated. Please "Remember" by attending our Remembrance Day Ser- vice on November 11. Yours in comradeship, Wes & Mary Ann Chambers, Poppy Chairpersons Royal Canadian Legion Br 140 Thoughts, observations or concerns about this community? Thoughts, observations or concerns about this community? 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