It’s become personal!

The care of our elderly has a long history at Neepawa and I will endeavour to try to accurately outline the events over the past 50 or so years.

First though, let it be said that there are many, many very dedicated hard working people in the health care field who work far harder than many of us can or want to in order to bring daily, competent care to our elderly. That is a marvellous and wonderful thing that we all need to be thankful for.

What is frustrating is that there are many gaps that must be addressed. For whatever the reason, some of our care homes are under a lot of pressure and the trick is to identify the source. The unions and opposition parties would want us to believe that more money and a change of government would solve all our problems. They may have a partial grip on the truth but I think the problems aren’t about to be solved that simply. I believe that the various stances by the unions, in some cases, contribute to the problems.

We often hear about problems and gaps in elder care and it seems to be related to a number of factors such as money, questionable rules, shortage of staff and often, incompetent administration. I would say that incompetent or ill-trained administration, aided by multiple and unnecessary layers of bureaucracy lead to plain, ordinary, bad administration. That said, running a care home has to be one of the most challenging jobs there is, but we know that and therefore we need the most gifted administrators in those positions. Many things are going well in our care homes, but there is a huge need for improvement. If you don’t believe that, then talk to any