2023-04-17 Meeting

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

Paul Jenkins & Gary Macleod

Paul - Social Worker

Gary: 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 us in order to diversify - they are two str8 white guys; they can't make assumptions about the 2SLGBTQ community.

What are your 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
• 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.

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.

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