The Hulme family hired a care aide for $850 a month to be with their 82-year-old father for a couple of hours two days a week — something they were surprised to find is not uncommon
As a Crown prosecutor for three decades, Victoria’s Samantha Hulme has a thick skin. But seeing her father, who has Alzheimer’s, in hospital with too few people to care for him or clean his room broke her.
When a friend originally suggested the idea to Hulme, 57, she imagined it wouldn’t be permitted. She has since learned that it’s not an uncommon practice. Samantha’s brother had been commuting from the Lower Mainland to care for their dad in his home — where he lived with his 79-year-old wife — on Galiano Island.
“You think he’s in hospital, he’s going to be safe there and sadly, despite the best efforts — I want to emphasize this — of the cleaners and care aides and nurses and doctors, the ship is going down.” Hulme said. Hulme recently wrote to the health minister, her MLA, and the hospital’s patient care and quality office to bring to light the severity of the understaffing from a patient perspective.
Unger said while the shortage of emergency physicians was the “final straw” in the health authority being unable to reopen the emergency department overnight, all Saanich Peninsula Hospital emergency-department and ward-care staffing is insufficient, “resulting not only in poor, fragmented, undignified and delayed care, but at times grossly unsafe care.”
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