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Call to Make Canadian Nursing Homes Safer for Elders
October 19, 2007 at 11:15 AM
Senior Health News
Ironically, the threat to the elderly inmates comes from their own fellow occupants, some of whom turn out to be aggressive and violent.
More than 150,000 Canadian seniors were living in residential care facilities across the country in 2004/05, according to figures released by Statistics Canada in the spring of 2007. That's one out of every 30 people aged 65 or older.
The numbers are far higher for people 85 and older about one in five. And many of them require constant care. Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia, is estimated to affect one in 20 Canadians over the age of 65 and one in four of those 85 or older.
"The pushing and the shoving, when you're dealing with frail, elderly people, will often end up in serious injury or death," Jane Meadus, a lawyer who has fought to keep violent residents out of nursing homes, told CBC News.
She says an increasing number of people with violent dementia and other illnesses are ending up in the residences because nursing beds are much cheaper and governments have shut down more expensive psychiatric beds.
"The nursing home beds are definitely the cheapest beds around. And they are what I would say is the dumping ground," Meadus said.
The government's own research suggests that one nursing home resident in five is now considered highly aggressive.
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