Elderberries Library: 2023-04-17 Meeting

Dan Meeting with ACE - Advocates for the Care of the Elderly via Zoom.

Ace was formed in 2006. At the VG Hospital "Transition" unit we saw abuse, neglect, dirty lockers, people treated badly. My mom was living in a dump.

We now have 9 members: 1 nurse, 1 CCA. resident in Long Term Care, etc.

They are contacting the Elderberries in order to diversify - they are two str8 white guys; they can't make assumptions about the 2SLGBTQ community.

The top projects?

International standard of 4.1 hours of care per day; Nova Scotia is only part way there
And a list of 21 things
And everything else

Dan's points

I Was involved with the CCA program 20 years ago
Story of Hugo > _Gen Silent_ > concern in our community
Creation of Elderberries out of NSRAP
Would like to see an anti-bigotry module in the CCA
Need to deal with fear of homophobia and enabling reporting of it, in our own population.
Tepid interest in Q Housing. That is; everyone's interested, no one wants to actually do anything.

Dan's Q's

what about the big picture: more beds, more affordable, offload hospital beds & staff, offloads emergency rooms

Future ideas

Geographic disparities, e.g. maybe there's no trans/homophobia in Halifax, but maybe it happens and goes unreported in Sydney, Amherst, Yarmouth.
Idea of a report card / annual survey.
We might need to get children / partners of people to help with this report card.
It would have to be anonymous - maybe that could be our role.

Would like to get together face to face. I suggested supper at Jenny’s.