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School aiming for $30,000 for Syria JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is reaching out to the public in a bid to support Syrian refugees, and staff and students at Dewson Street Junior Public School are among those leading the charge. The school, near Ossington Avenue and College Street, has set a goal of raising $30,000 to sponsor a refugee family from the crisis-ravaged nation. In addition to helping others deal with a situation, the initiative serves to enrich the education of students at the school. “One of the things we think is really exciting is to have kids have a chance to get involved, and incredible learning opportunities come out of this process,” said Kelly Gallagher-Mackay, a parent at Dewson Street Junior. “Right now, 40 per cent of

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Take Back the Night march focusing on black women JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The struggle to ensure safety for women – particularly those from marginalized communities – continues, but the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape (TRCC/

MWAR) and Black Lives Matter Toronto are coming together in a bid to take strides in the right direction. The groups have teamed up to organize the 35th annual Take Back the Night rally and march, with a special focus on >>>BLACK, page 5

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Community rallies for new playground JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com They say it takes a village to raise a child. For residents of the Bedford Park area, it took a community to build a place for children to play. Local residents and businesses, the community at Ledbury Park Elementary and Middle School and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) came together to build a new $165,000 playscape for the school and surrounding area. The large playscape features a variety of swinging, climbing, sliding and other areas, and replaces a decrepit old play structure that was well past its prime and no longer met safety standards. “It was a non-CSA (Canadian Standards Association) conforming play structure and it often had to be shut down over the winter because it was unsafe,” said Jeremy Jacobs, one of the parents who led the efforts to have the new playscape built. “It didn’t have nearly as many elements as (the new structure). Here, kids can really exercise their minds and imagination as well as exercising their bodies.” Jacobs said the playscape took more than two years to plan and bring to life, but once the wheels were rolling and it was clear the project was possible, “things came together quickly.”

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ON TAP: Toronto Beer Week co-founder Troy Burtch, left, looks on as Toronto Mayor John Tory pours a Six Boroughs at the event’s launch last Friday at Amsterdam BrewHouse on Queen’s Quay West. Toronto Beer Week runs until Saturday with 36 breweries and 76 bars and restaurants throughout the city hosting events. Check our story online at bit. ly/1MGZNfz

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JUST HANGING OUT: Abigail Shields swings from the monkey bars at the launch of a new play structure at Ledbury Park Elementary and Middle School. An official opening ceremony for the playground’s launch took place last Thursday.

The TDSB contributed $75,000 toward the project, with the community covering the rest of the cost of having the old playground demolished and removed and the new one designed and installed. “The school advisory committee is always raising money, and we sold commemorative

bricks to local businesses to cover a lot of the costs,” said Marjorie Cader, another of the parents who worked to see the project through. The committee’s “brick by brick” campaign raised some $67,000 of the play area’s cost. Councillor Christin Carmichael Greb said the

playground revitalization was one of many taking place in the area, with play areas on Woburn Avenue and Old Orchard Grove also on the list. The school held an official opening ceremony for the playscape, complete with music and a barbecue, last Thursday.

Walk of Fame Festival events through Oct. 1 Canadian talent will be on display with a series of concerts and other attractions throughout the upcoming Canada’s Walk of Fame Festival. The celebration will feature concerts at Massey Hall by Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy Friday and the Tea Party Saturday plus a showcase of up-and-coming Canadian bands at the Horseshoe Tavern Monday. From Tuesday, Sept. 29 through Thursday, Oct. 1, Yonge-Dundas Square will

host free live performances ranging from music and dance to comedy and author readings, plus visual artists, food trucks, films, fitness workouts and more. Entertainment in the square will run from noon to 11 p.m. each day and acts will include 54-40, Treble Charger, Skratch Bastid and others. For more information, including a complete schedule and cost, visit www. canadaswalkoffame.com

Choreographer’s season opener for DanceWorks inspired by weaving JUSTIN SKINNER jskinner@insidetoronto.com The traditional art of weaving is slowly disappearing in today’s modernized society, but choreographer Peter Chin is looking to keep it alive through his latest work, Woven. The piece brings together dancers from around the world, all of whom hail from countries where Chin has been exposed to weaving communities. “I researched for almost three years in Southeast Asia, Latin America and North America, learning what I could about weaving communities,” he said. “(Woven)

is about textiles and weaving on the one hand, but on the other, it’s also about the people who weave.” The downtown resident has enlisted dancers from Toronto, Mexico, Indonesia and Cambodia, with Chin spending time in each of those locales. He noted that as ingrained as the art of weaving is in some parts of those regions, it is hardly guaranteed to remain a permanent cultural tradition. “There’s a loss of integrity of (weaving culture) in those communities because of globalization and a loss of connection to nature,” he said.

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WOVEN: Downtown resident Peter Chin’s newest dance piece inspired by weaving will open DanceWorks’ 39th season.

As the dancers move to the music, Toronto-based backstrap weaver Caleb Bean will

actually showcase his art. For the Jamaican-born Chin, who now lives a stone’s

throw from the old Maple Leaf Gardens, Woven allows him to blend several areas of expertise and interest. “I was a musician first – I went to St. Michael’s Choir School when I was younger because creativity and art were always important to me,” he said. “Dance came into my life accidentally, in fact. I had planned to make my career as a visual artist.” Chin wrote much of the music for Woven, and the weaving element allows him to touch on visual arts as well, even though the piece as a whole is centred around dance. The choreographer said he

hopes the piece as a whole serves as a meditation on the importance of tribal cultures and traditions even as they vanish from many parts of the world. “I hope it gives the audience an opportunity to feel something,” he said. DanceWorks info Wov e n w i l l o p e n DanceWorks’ 39th season with shows at the Harbourfront Centre Theatre as part of the NextSteps program. Performances take place at 8 p.m. from Thursday to Saturday.

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The good and the bad of term limits Seasoned councillors have value...

t should hardly come as a surprise that Beaches-East York Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon wasn’t able to summon more than a smidgen of support for her motion to place term limits on municipal politicians. Being a city councillor in Toronto, after all, is a good gig. Governing the largest city in the country provides interesting and varied work for the diligent. For the vainglorious, there are plenty of opportunities to see oneself on television, hear oneself on the radio, read about oneself in the newspaper. For the opportunistic,

david nickle the city there are other perquisites like travel and nights out at the film festival and ball games. And for everyone seeking to pay off a mortgage in Toronto’s overvalued real estate market, there’s a six-figure salary attached. For the cynical, that’s enough to explain the vote at executive committee on McMahon’s motion Monday to ask that term limits be included in revisions to the City of Toronto Act. But there are good arguments for keeping councillors past their best-before date. Toronto is a complicated government, and it makes sense that at least a few of its overseers should be well-schooled in its operations. Given that there are no

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formal requirements that a candidate for council go to councillor school before taking the job, it is essential that at least a few council members are able to contribute their experience and understanding of the place. Indeed, some of council’s most reliable members are its veterans: people like Shelly Carroll, Norm Kelly, Pam McConnell and Denzil Minnan-Wong. Before he stepped down, veteran councillor Howard Moscoe was able to play city hall like a well-tuned instrument that, if you agreed with his progressive politics, you’d count that a good thing. The trouble, of course,

is that not all veterans are created equal. Giorgio Mammoliti by way of example has been a city councillor since 1995, and in that time made a name for himself primarily as a showboater and class clown. Yet he has proven himself undefeatable in his ward, such being the power of incumbency. He is not the only one. It is useful to wonder, then, just how much value would we lose on city council if it were made up more completely of other bright lights – people like Kristyn Wong-Tam, Josh Matlow, Mike Layton, Josh Colle come to mind – who are working in their second term? And what would we gain in having a cadre of councillors who were treating the job as a short stretch of public service rather than a long-term career choice?

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Black Communities Take Back the Night Saturday >>>from page 1 the difficulties faced by black women. This year, the event will be known as #All Black Lives Matter: Black Communities Take Back the Night. “Every year for the past few years, the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/ Multicultural Women Against Rape has focused on a specific community that exponentially experiences more violence,” said OmiSoore Dryden of the TRCC/MWAA. “The last couple of years, we’ve focused on the Aboriginal community. By showing what people from some marginalized groups face, we feel more gets done for all people.” Dryden noted that Black women often face discrimination that can make them hesitant to seek help from police and other groups when they are victims of violence, a point that was reinforced by Janaya Khan of Black Lives Matter Toronto and one of the organizers of the Take Back the Night event. Khan said black women face discrimination by police. “Black people are also four times more likely to be carded,” she said. The collaboration between the groups aims to shine a light on such

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what they need, we all have what we need. If it’s not all of us, it’s none of us.” By working together with Black Lives Matter Toronto, TRCC/ MWAR should boost the march’s numbers. “This year, we should have 1,000 or maybe even 1,500 people,” Khan

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said. The event will start with a community fair at Scadding Court Community Centre at 6 p.m. Saturday along with a Healing Rage Space where participants can enjoy counseling or holistic healing, share their stories and hear from others who have experienced violence. Children’s activities will also be available for youngsters. Starting at 7 p.m., a demonstration stage will offer women tips on how to get support and learn to deal with crisis without having to contact police. T h e a n n u a l r a l l y, l e d by #BlackLivesMatter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, will begin at 7:45 p.m., with the march kicking off at 8:30 p.m.

Organizers of the upcoming Black Communities Take Back the Night march gather at the Anne Johnston Health Station on Wednesday. The group is organizing a Take Back the Night rally and march for Sept. 26.

injustices, but Take Back the Night will be open to all races, cultures and gender identities with a goal of stopping gender-based violence of all kinds. “We believe firmly that by saying black lives matter, we’re not saying other lives don’t matter,” Khan said. “When the most marginalized have

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Fred Hamilton Park then to Bickford Park and finishing off at Christie Pits on Sunday, Sept. 27 from noon to 6 p.m. This year’s free event will feature food from 20 of Toronto’s top chefs and restaurants. To wash it all down, a cash only wine and beer tent will be set up at Christie Pits. Food tickets are $5 per portion with vegan and vegetarian options available. People are encouraged to bring their own mugs and plates to help keep waste down to a minimum. The funds raised from the

food tickets will directly support the Homegrown National Project, which has so far created 23 canoe gardens in schools and parks. Roberts is expecting a large crowd this year, as last year’s event brought about a thousand people out, which caused them to unfortunately run out of food. “It’s best to get your food tickets early to avoid disappointment,” he said. As participants travel from park to park, they will be accompanied by live entertainment from various musical acts including Sidewalk Crusaders, Turbo Street Funk, Maracatu Mar Aberto, Woodshed Orchestra and Midnight Vesta. For more information and to purchase food tickets, visit www.davidsuzuki.org/ parkcrawl

Beltline path visionary to be feted Many people have enjoyed walking or biking along the Kay Gardner Beltline path, but far fewer have had the chance to personally thank the woman who made the Beltline Park possible. Gardner, a former councillor, tenaciously fought plans to develop the Beltline Park from being developed back when it was a neglected and unused railway line in the 1970s. Her vision of keeping it green and turning it into the public space it is today began to come to life more fully closer to the end of the 20th century. This Sunday, councillors Josh Matlow and Joe Mihevc will come together to celebrate Gardner and her efforts in person. A walk from 446 Spadina Rd. to the Beltline will kick off at 10 a.m. and a special ceremony will be held – with

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TDSB announces board-wide fundraising campaign >>>from page 1 to families and setting up a lemonade stand at a recent community fair. Thus far, it has raised roughly $5,000 toward its goal and has set up a Schools Welcome Refugees website (http://schoolswelcome.wix. com/1000schoolschallenge) to both garner support and encourage other school communities to get involved. “It’s got a full toolkit for schools who want to join us,” Gallagher-Mackay said. “That includes logos, pledge forms, frequently asked questions, links to webinars on the sponsorship process, most of the tools that people need to get started.” The school is ensuring the students are on board

Staff photo/JUSTIN SKINNER

Dewson Street Junior Public School parent Kelly GallagherMackey, flanked by TDSB Trustee Ausma Malik and TDSB Chair Robin Pilkey, outlines the school’s plan to sponsor a family of Syrian refugees Tuesday.

by stressing some of the hardships faced by those in countries such as Syria. In one classroom, Dewson Grade 6 students Savanah Braithwaite, Chloe Baker

and Maya Makhmara were engaged in an exercise designed to help them appreciate the rights and responsibilities that come with living in Canada.

“It’s about the rights we have that people in other countries don’t always have,” Savanah said. Chloe cited the freedom Canadians have to practice their religion without fear of prosecution. “That’s a right I have, but I also have a responsibility to respect and not to insult other people’s religions,” she said. Dewson’s initiative was lauded by TDSB Chair Robin Pilkey, who dropped by the school and announced a school board-wide fundraising campaign to help Syrian refugees. Pilkey said each school would be able to select its own fundraising methods, with funds going toward

the Canadian Red Cross to provide on-the-ground support. “We do not have a (fundraising) goal at this point, but we have raised various amounts of money over time for various other appeals – the tsunami in Indonesia, for example, flooding in Pakistan, the earthquake in Haiti – and those projects have raised over two-and-a-half million dollars,” she said. “We certainly would like to raise as much money as we can.” She said she hopes more schools take up the challenge set forth by the community at Dewson.

Those wishing to donate can do so through the TDSB website at www.tdsb.on.ca

Name change As part of a re-branding initiative, Cadillac Fairview is looking to make a slight change to the name of the historic Eaton Centre. Under the plan, the popular tourist and shopping destination will be renamed the CF Eaton Centre. Cadillac Fairview also plans to add its initials to other shopping centres it owns, including Sherway Gardens.

Correction There was an error in the front-page story about the UCC/Forest Hill Terry Fox Run on the front page of the City Centre Mirror published Thursday, Sept. 17. Mark Holmes of Platinum Blonde hosted the event. The Mirror regrets the error.

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THE IMPENDING WAVE

Mobilizing policymakers and stakeholders ‘critical’ to addressing influx of dementia cases among seniors

by LAURA DASILVA

TIDAL WAVE

On May 6, Nickel Belt of dementia is MP Claude Gravelle tabled about to engulf private member’s Bill C-356 Canada’s aging population. Respecting a National Strategy for Dementia. The bill was defeated Today, 747,000 Canadians are living with dementia, including Alzheimer’s in a vote of 140 to 139 in the House disease. This number is expected to increase of Commons after Liberal MP Yvonne to 1.4 million by end of 2031, according to Jones failed to stand up and register Alzheimer Society of Canada (ASC). her vote. Annual costs of dementia will “It was heartbreaking to see increase from $33 billion today we lost this very importo $293 billion by 2040 says ASC, tant strategy because posing an overwhelming threat one Liberal MP was to the country’s health-care not paying attention,” system and economy. Gravelle said. Mimi Lowi-Young, the The deciding vote CEO of ASC, is pushing for a could have also come A METROLAND national dementia strategy that from Conservative MP MEDIA SERIES will prevent persons living with Joe Preston who initially dementia and their caregivers from voted in favour, but then PART 1 OF 3 being pulled into the undertow of this changed his vote to a nay. wave. Gravelle was inspired to champion a She calls dementia a “non-partisan issue and strategy after watching his mother battle health priority” and has asked the main political Alzheimer’s disease until her death in 2003. parties to include a national dementia strategy “When my mom had dementia, we didn’t in their platforms leading up to the Oct. 19 know enough,” he said. “We didn’t understand it federal election. ASC also just launched and at the time we thought it was just age. But it’s its ‘Raise your Voice’ civic engagement not age, it’s a disease.” campaign to encourage those affected Though she voted against Gravelle’s bill, in by dementia to speak to candidates October 2014 Health Minister Rona Ambrose about why a national strategy is so announced $31.5 million in funding for critical. Alzheimer’s research and committed to With just under a month to go working toward a national strategy to fight until voting day, the NDP have the “impending loom” of dementia. pledged to invest $40 million THE 2015 FEDERAL BUDGET includes over four years in a Canadawide strategy, focusing on a commitment to continue supporting screening, diagnosis, support innovation in health care and dementia and research. The Green Party, research. The government proposes to through its National Seniors provide up to $42 million over five years to Strategy, has also committed Toronto’s Baycrest Health Sciences to supto a national plan for dementia port the establishment of the Canadian - though no funding details have >>>WORKING, page 17 been announced. Currently, Canada is the only G7 country without a national plan in place. Earlier this year, a single vote could have changed that.

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Mimi Lowi-Young is CEO of the Alzheimer Society of Canada.

objectives for a national strategy on dementia

According to Mimi Lowi-Young, Alzheimer Society of Canada CEO, key objectives of a national dementia strategy should include:

1 Increasing investment in research, fostering collaboration and improving knowledge exchange and translation. 2 Providing a surveillance system and evidence-based information on all aspects of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias to inform best practices. 3 Enhancing the competency and capacity of those delivering dementia care. 4 Increasing awareness about dementia risk factors, early diagnosis and timely interventions. 5 Strengthening the integration and co-ordination of care and service delivery across the health-care continuum. 6 Recognizing family caregiver needs and developing supports that provide options and flexibility.

+ To learn more, visit www.alzheimer.ca

DEMENTIA ADVISORY GROUP GIVES A VOICE TO THOSE AFFECTED

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Mary Beth Wighton at the 2014 Walk for Alzheimer’s in Kitchener.

A fervent group of people living with dementia is out to prove life does not end with a diagnosis. The Ontario Dementia Advisory Group (ODAG) was formed in 2014 with the purpose of giving people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias a voice in shaping Ontario’s healthcare policy. The five-member group is erasing the assumption that people living with dementia are unable to communicate their needs, wants and perspectives. They are working with the provincial government to develop an Ontario dementia strategy that will impact the province’s aging population. Mary Beth Wighton is a retired owner of a recruiting firm. She was diagnosed with probable frontotemporal dementia in 2012 at age 45. As a member of ODAG, she shares the triumphs and challenges she faces with her partner and daughter through writing and speaking engagements. Here’s what she has to say:

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If you don’t hear it from the people experiencing it, they just become numbers on a spreadsheet.

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Wouldn’t you As soon as rather put in you switch from a ramp and your home into some dementia- long-term care, friendly devices your finances are in a home, than out the window. put someone in a room?

+ Read the full story online at www.insidetoronto.com/dementia

1.4 MILLION PEOPLE As The Canadian population ages, we are seeing a growth in the country’s dementia problem. In 2011, 747,000 Canadians were living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias - that’s 14.9 per cent of Canadians 65 and older. Here are some stats that show how the dementia burden on Canadian society will begin to accelerate:

By 2031: If nothing changes, 1.4 million people will have dementia in Canada - a 47 per cent increase from 2011 levels.

+ + +

Today, the combined direct (medical) and indirect (lost earnings) costs of dementia total $33 billion per year. By 2040: That’s expected to climb to $293 billion a year, if Canada maintains its current path. In 2011, family caregivers spent in excess of 444 million unpaid hours looking after someone with cognitive impairment, including dementia.

This figure represents $11 billion in lost income and 227,760 full-time equivalent employees in the workforce.

By 2040: Family caregivers could spend 1.2 billion unpaid hours per year. Source: Alzheimer Society of Canada; www.alzheimer.ca

ADVICE

‘All About Me’ is a booklet for people with dementia, to help them create a personal record of their background and what is important to them. An editable PDF version of ‘All About Me’ is available for download at www. alzheimer.ca

Working to diffuse the dementia time bomb >>>from page 16 Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation. Since 2006, the government has invested more than $860 million in support of neuroscience research, allotting $182 million for the prevention, diagnosis and care of dementia. However, Lowi-Young said more needs to be done. A national strategy would ensure someone living in Northern Ontario would receive the same kind of service as someone in Vancouver, B.C. She said objectives of the national strategy should include more investment and focus in research, better integration, co-ordination and accessibility of primary, community and home-care across the country, improved training of health-care workers and better supports for family caregivers. The ASC has requested a total of $150 million over five years to create and fund the Canadian Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Partnership, which would bring together researchers, Alzheimer societies and federal and provincial governments to develop and implement a Canadawide plan. “We need to take these objectives and make them real,” Lowi-Young said. “We need to prepare now. We can’t wait for the future.”

ONTARIO IS A LARGE PIECE

cases to 255,000, according to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario. Efforts are underway that may help diffuse the province’s dementia time bomb. In November 2014, Premier Kathleen Wynne and Health Minister Eric Hoskins mandated Indira Naidoo-Harris, the Halton MPP and parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Health and Long Term Care, to develop a comprehensive Ontario dementia strategy. “It’s critical we start planning for our future today. It’s going to involve research, supports for caregivers and care partners, but it’s also going to involve educating people,” Naidoo-Harris said in an interview. Her mandate includes championing more research and innovation to better understand the disease,

supporting the implementation of 25 new memory clinics across Ontario (designed for early dementia detection and prevention), and working across levels of government and agencies to identify ways to expand supports to family caregivers. The politician watched her fatherin-law battle Alzheimer’s and calls it an “extremely painful and emotionally draining” experience. “It was very hard for our family to sit by and watch one of the smartest men that we knew slowly lose the ability to speak and express himself,” she said. An advisory board of more than 30 experts has been formed to bring together key stakeholders from Alzheimer societies, the Ontario Long Term Care Association, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and community care access centres, among

one

OUT OF

others. David Harvey, chief of public policy and programs initiative for the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, is part of that board and said it is critical to have people at the table who are experiencing dementia first-hand. “Our focus has been developing a strategy that enables persons living with dementia to have a voice in articulating what their needs are and what the solutions might be moving forward,” he said. The Ontario Dementia Advisory Group (ODAG) consists of people living with dementia whose motto is “nothing about us without us.” They have been working with Naidoo-Harris on the Ontario strategy and will help government create policies and procedures through first-hand perspectives. ODAG member Bea Kraayenhof is a retired nurse who has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for 15 years. She said dementia should not be politicized and that Ontario needs to prepare for the “tsunami” by implementing a set of rules for long-term care homes and health-care agencies to follow. “The people in government now making the policies will be the ones living those policies,” she said. “If they’re lucky enough to live long, it’s probably going to happen to them.” An initial meeting was held in July to collect opinions and by 2020, more than jumping off points on how to best go about building a personA QUARTER OF A MILLION centered model of care. seniors in Ontario

ONTARIANS OVER 65 IS LIVING WITH

of this national puzzle. In five years, the province expects to see a 22.5 per cent jump in dementia cases, bringing the total number of provincial

dementia

will be affected...

VOICES

Families need more support to keep loved ones with dementia at home Beverly Verwey believes home is where the heart should stay. In 2007, she gave her mother, Betty, the option to move into a retirement home or to live with her in her Newmarket home. Betty chose the latter. Verwey watched her mother’s early signs of dementia progress to the point where Betty no longer recognized her daughter. Betty became blind and was later diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2012, Verwey retired early from her job with the Canadian Red Cross to stay home and take care of Betty. The local Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) provided 12 hours per week of personal support worker (PSW) help. She had a front row seat to gaps in the home care system, and noticed inconsistencies in PSWs’ implementation of her mother’s daily exercise routine, a critical component to her physical and mental health. “The family caregivers need some sort of

respite,” she said. “They have to trust that the support worker they’re leaving their loved one with is going to do the right thing.” She believes students in college PSW programs need more time in the classroom and doing clinical work. “The PSWs take a four-month course, then they have a short practical part where they work in a long-term care home,” she said. She said an occasional evaluation of PSWs’ skills, attitude and work ethic needs to be implemented. According to Verwey, an overhaul of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is needed: “Funding, tools and resources from the government should be allocated to families who are keeping their family member at home.” Betty died in January 2014 at the age of 94. by LAURA DASILVA

...that is approximately the combined populations of Oshawa and Waterloo

COMING NEXT Part two, to be published next week, offers the perspective of a former ICU nurse and member of the Ontario Dementia Advisory Group whoʼs been living with early onset Alzheimerʼs disease. Her experience in dealing with a lengthy diagnosis and mismanaged treatment has her advocating for a patient-centred policy for health professionals dealing with dementia.

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