Peter Oliver takes in the family photos and brightly coloured paintings lining the walls of his room at Kings Way Care Centre in Quispamsis. They are, he admits, an attempt to make his new residence feel a bit like the home he was forced to leave last year, when the multiple sclerosis he’d grappled with for decades finally gained the upper hand.
Oliver now uses his one functioning hand to operate a motorized wheelchair around his residence, and with just 40 per cent lung capacity, he relies on a microphone to amplify his voice.
At just 62 years old, he’s one of the youngest people living at the home, and has had a lot of time to observe the care that he and his neighbours receive, and the struggles staff and residents face on a daily basis.
While residents are loved and cared for, Oliver said staff are simply stretched too thin. He said they’re often rushed and under pressure, continually being paged from other rooms requiring assistance.
“With me, I need the help to physically move me and take care of me,” he said. “But there’s many residents that have dementia or Alzheimer’s and they can be difficult to deal with.”
“That requires more than one person. And if there’s only two people on in a given evening to put 24 people, 25 people to bed, the numbers just don’t add up. And, it’s just unreasonable.”
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