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: One elder-care strategy that does not get enough attention is focusing upstream to keep elderly people at home, in cases where that is their goal. Funding for community palliative care on-call, for example, was frozen for years by the Ontario government and has only recently started to reopen. Without a physician available for patients to call at off-hours, patients often have no choice but to go to the emergency department.
The hospital’s discharge team is the harbinger of a culture of shaming and shunning. The hidden message is always the same: “Your mother is a burden. Find her a place to go at your expense.”
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