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Working To Improve The Quality of Life for Elderly in Long-term Care.

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The ACE Team has been a strong advocacy organization for the elderly since 2006.

There have been many reports, over the years, concerning neglect and abuse resulting in death in many cases.  The ACE Team has learned through Freedom of Information, on average, two hundred reports of neglect and abuse occur yearly in Nova Scotia with only twenty percent ever investigated.  In cases where a loved one died as a result of resident to resident/worker violence that have been declared a homicide, no one or facility has been held responsible and despite the Department for the Protection for the People in Care, there has been no closure for the families and friends.  There have been reports of sexual abuse that have been overlooked by administrative staff and are seen as a normal process when long-term care patients develop relationships with one another, within long-term care facilities. Recent reports of outbreaks of bedsores is another example of neglect  and abuse.  Bedsores are preventable, but because many long-term care facilities are short staffed, long-term care patients do not receive the attention they should and receiving a bath only once a week, bedsores have a high rate of frequency. Food nutrition is another area where long-term care residents suffer.  As a result of recent funding cuts by the provincial government meal budgets for all long-term care facilities have been reduced to just five dollars a day.    We are interested in hearing about your experiences with a loved one in either in a long-term care facility or in-home home care or if you are employed in the long-term care sector and have witnessed cases of abuse. All identities will be kept strictly confidential unless given permission to be made public.  Your story is invaluable in helping us to obtain the quality of care fit for human dignity the elderly deserve.

Better Care Starts with You!
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