A recent letter by Patricia Spindel, appeared in the August 29th Stratford Beacon Herald, under the By-line “Baby boomers want options for end of life care”. Well worth reading Patricia Spindel, who is chair of Seniors for Social Action Ontario states, “The current Ontario government believes people now in our 70s and 80s, who have contributed to their communities and fought for social justice, somehow will allow ourselves to be mass institutionalized, segregated from the society we helped to build, away from our neighbours, friend, and families. The federal government believes all that is needed is standards to “improve” long term care institutions. They have all gotten this generation wrong. The “Hell,no, we won’t go” of the 1960s refusal to go to war, is now “Hell, no, we won’t go into long-term care.”
The rest of Patricia Spindel’s letter lays out a pretty good game plan for where our governments should go in home care for the future. It’s excellent reading, which I think builds on the letter that the group of eleven Stratford women wrote to Premier Ford on October 1st 2020.