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Just as home care is allowing the elderly to stay in their own homes longer, new and innovate types of accommodation are changing the way Canadians live their final years.
Nurse-supported housing:
The City of Ottawa noticed that several of its municipally run apartment buildings had a high concentration of seniors. The city decided to assign nurses and other health professionals to those buildings to bring services to the residents rather than force residents to go to the services. Now, 11 city-run apartment buildings have a nurse on site during the day to offer things like footcare or counselling.
“By bringing nurses to where people live, we can provide a form of supportive housing where people don’t have to move out of their homes,” said Chantale LeClerc, chief executive officer of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network.
“They’re supervised. There’s somebody there they can talk to if they’re not feeling well, who can link to their family doctor. That has prevented visits to the hospital and admissions to the emergency department and for some people it’s allowing them to stay in their own homes and own communities for longer.”
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Keeping couples together:
Other facilities provide options for couples where one partner needs more advanced care than the other. At the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre and at The Villages by Bruyère Continuing Care, partners can get a continuum of care from totally independent living, to complex long-term care.
“What’s great about it is that you can age in place,” said Simon Akinsulie, executive director of long-term care at Bruyère. “I think everyone would like to do that. Everyone would like to stay in the same place and age with your friends and loved ones and not have to move around.”
The Villages at Bruyére sit on the banks of the Ottawa River in Orléans. Several buildings have standalone apartments for completely independent living but with senior-friendly features like walk-in showers and hand rails. Besserer Place, an immaculately clean complex that’s less than two years old, also features ‘cluster’ living with 11 individual bachelor apartments surrounding a common living room, kitchen and dining room with a personal support worker assigned to each cluster.
Louise Riffou and Maurice Menard play some pool in the Village at Bruyere Continuing Care in Ottawa.
“You come and maybe you’re totally independent, or need a bit of assisted living and go right through to long-term care. Everything is on one site,” Akinsulie said.
“With married couples, people can age differently. Maybe the husband or the wife becomes ill and they end up being separated. One would live at the house and the other would have to be in long-term care.”
That separating can be heart breaking, especially if the at-home senior can no longer drive. At The Villages, the long-term care wing is just down the hallway.
“They might not live in the same room, but they are in the same community. Someone is in long-term care and someone is in the village but they can still eat together and spend time together. To me, that’s great. That’s what we’d all want,” Akinsulie said.
“We’re going to need more places like the villages linked to long-term care in the future. Not everyone is going to be able to stay at home.”
bcrawford@postmedia.com
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Nurse-supported housing:
The City of Ottawa noticed that several of its municipally run apartment buildings had a high concentration of seniors. The city decided to assign nurses and other health professionals to those buildings to bring services to the residents rather than force residents to go to the services. Now, 11 city-run apartment buildings have a nurse on site during the day to offer things like footcare or counselling.
“By bringing nurses to where people live, we can provide a form of supportive housing where people don’t have to move out of their homes,” said Chantale LeClerc, chief executive officer of the Champlain Local Health Integration Network.
“They’re supervised. There’s somebody there they can talk to if they’re not feeling well, who can link to their family doctor. That has prevented visits to the hospital and admissions to the emergency department and for some people it’s allowing them to stay in their own homes and own communities for longer.”
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- Ontario's long-term care problem: Seniors staying at home longer isn't a cure for waiting lists
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Keeping couples together:
Other facilities provide options for couples where one partner needs more advanced care than the other. At the Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre and at The Villages by Bruyère Continuing Care, partners can get a continuum of care from totally independent living, to complex long-term care.
“What’s great about it is that you can age in place,” said Simon Akinsulie, executive director of long-term care at Bruyère. “I think everyone would like to do that. Everyone would like to stay in the same place and age with your friends and loved ones and not have to move around.”
The Villages at Bruyére sit on the banks of the Ottawa River in Orléans. Several buildings have standalone apartments for completely independent living but with senior-friendly features like walk-in showers and hand rails. Besserer Place, an immaculately clean complex that’s less than two years old, also features ‘cluster’ living with 11 individual bachelor apartments surrounding a common living room, kitchen and dining room with a personal support worker assigned to each cluster.
Louise Riffou and Maurice Menard play some pool in the Village at Bruyere Continuing Care in Ottawa.
“You come and maybe you’re totally independent, or need a bit of assisted living and go right through to long-term care. Everything is on one site,” Akinsulie said.
“With married couples, people can age differently. Maybe the husband or the wife becomes ill and they end up being separated. One would live at the house and the other would have to be in long-term care.”
That separating can be heart breaking, especially if the at-home senior can no longer drive. At The Villages, the long-term care wing is just down the hallway.
“They might not live in the same room, but they are in the same community. Someone is in long-term care and someone is in the village but they can still eat together and spend time together. To me, that’s great. That’s what we’d all want,” Akinsulie said.
“We’re going to need more places like the villages linked to long-term care in the future. Not everyone is going to be able to stay at home.”
bcrawford@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/getBAC
查看原文...
