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Home care has no policy or procedures in place to help somebody with memory problems and insulin needs. This, even though they client has a life sustaining therapy prescription which in a nursing home would require 31 hours of nursing services per week. These hours can be eliminated with a senior life coach.
The only answer they have is a nursing home and the nursing home will bill healthcare , almost thirty thousand dollars a month.
There is also the fact that we are failing to mention patients in Canada. They actually cannot look after a diabetic patient in a nursing home as they cannot get enough exercise or the one on one care required to maintain healthy glucose levels. These patients/clients will need to have their glucose levels checked several times during the night and sometimes require a small snack, i.e. 3 or 4 grapes.
We propose following the patient bill of rights and allowing the patient/client access to family manage funds so that they can stay in their own homes and have one on one care.
We propose following the model that already in place for people with physical challenges. We would like to follow an existing model, The center for independent living Toronto. In this model , people with physical challenges oversee direct funding , which is used by people with physical challenges to hire their own help. This model is much more cost effective and has benefits that home care cannot provide.
We want to start a group of seniors helping seniors. It would be nice to find a couple of volunteers to help out. We could benefit from a lawyer and an accountant to start.
With a nursing home charging health care thirty thousand dollars per month for a diabetic type three patient that is a total of three hundred and sixty thousand dollars per year. We believe we can cut the cost almost in half. We would like to see these clients stay with a single lady over 50 or live with a young family or or stay in the condo and have somebody, within the building, take care of them. In a case such as this, it's possible that one person could take care of two, whereas, there are times when one person will require two coaches/caretakers.
There are currently half a million clients like this in Canada and in five years will be one million.
We can also solve the nursing crisis. Looking, at the attached Life Sustaining Therapy Prescription, you can see a requirement of 31 hours per week and this translates into 3/4 of a nurses work week. With the 1 million clients, within the next five years, this translates into 750,000 nursing positions which we cannot fill. I suggest 1 nurse per 10 clients, 4 hours each per week ( 1 hour for travel, 2 hours to visit the client in their potentially various environments and an hour to write the report). This model would still require 100,000 nurses and thus reduce the overall number required by 650,000.
We can create between a half a million and a million jobs in the next five years , while saving the Canadian healthcare system $1.8 annually and we can create between a 1/2 a million and a million jobs in the next 5 years.
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I have only included a few pages, which I believe are important to understand. You can always look up the whole document on the internet.
This page, and it carry's over to the next page, shows a list of the services which should be available. Things such as meal services, transportation services, home maintenance and repair services, friendly visiting services, security checks or reassurance, social or recreational services, emergency response services, foot care services, independence training, and then the next list starts and it begins with house cleaning.
The list of the services available continues on this page and it includes things such as laundry, shopping, banking, paying bills.planning menus, preparing meals.
A continuing list of services includes dietary services, training a person to provide any of the services referred to in paragraphs 1 to 6 (a backup), medical supplies , nursing, occupational therapy services , physiotherapy services, dietetics services, or in response to circumstances within the social or physical environment that may be frustrating frightening or confusing to an individual.
Factors to be considered, 6. A health service provider or an Ontario health team that is funded by the agency under section 21 of the act to provide a home and community care service or to provide funding to or on behalf of an individual to purchase a home and community care service should consider and promote the following in the provision of services and then the provision of the funding to purchase services. Continue on next page
A patient has the right to be dealt with by the provider of the home in community care service in a manner that respects the patient's dignity and privacy , and that promotes the patient's autonomy and participation in decision making.
A patient has the right to be dealt with, by the provider of the community care service and manner that recognizes the patient's individuality and that is sensitive to and responds to the patient's needs and preferences ...
A patient has the right to designate a person to be present with them during assessments
A patient has the right to designate a person to participate in the development evaluation and the vision of their care plan
A patient has the right to raise the concerns or recommend changes in connection with the home community care service provided to them and connection with the policies and decisions that affect their interests to the provider of the home community care service , the agency employees , government officials or any other person without fear of interference coercion , discrimination or reprisal.
The funding covers
a range of services which would be outlined in the patient's care plan , including personal support , nursing care and administrative costs.
This page is from the Center for Independent Living Toronto website. This is the international model we can follow with the seniors helping seniors program. This is a group of people with physical challenges , overseeing the money for clients with physical challenges to self manage their care. It's cost effective and turns a patient into a client.
The program is funded by the ministry of health and long term care. As of 2017, the average monthly funding per client was $4,035 and that was paid at $25 per hour.
We started on this journey because grace told me there were issues with home care and diabetic care. It turns out this causes diabetes type three which is vascular dementia and can be stabilized, even reversed.
The changes we made, met Grace's needs, reversed her vascular dementia and her diabetic retinopathy.
Let's work together using the system in place to approve home care while saving money and creating careers.
In response to a request by grace's family doctor, for a care plan, home responded that they have no policies or procedures in place to help somebody with insulin and memory issues.
You can see that Grace has a life sustaining therapy prescription for it. It's almost absurd.
After grace was hospitalized, and her son didn't come to help her even after CT scans showed her brain was the same as 2018 and heart scans showed her heart was the same as 2015. Grace's family doctor released her into my care and two months later she changed her powers of attorney. Grace wrote, by hand, that she wanted her representative to continue to apply for the family managed or self directed home care funding. FYI she doesn't require it, she's trying to leave a legacy.
After a lengthy investigation into whether or not i committed fraud it was found that there was no evidence. They Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee is not recognizing the new powers of attorney and are trying to put Grace in a nursing home. They took her money away , and now they say she has none. They are also refusing to apply for the family , manage funding or to pay for care.
This is the brochure from Home and Community Care Support Services Central that explains Family Managed Home Care.
Under who is eligible for family managed home care, we have at number 4. patients in extraordinary circumstances. When we read the next paragraph " who are patients in extraordinary circumstances" Grace qualifies due to the unique scheduling issues and the frequency with which she needs to be attended. This is due to her memory issues and insulin use, for which she has a life sustaining therapy prescription. Grace can manage her basic activities of daily living.It's her instrumental activity of daily living , which are a challenge, and this would be the case for many seniors.
The patient or substitute decision maker may purchase services from a service provider agency, independent contractor or an individual all providers.
Hired must:
Be at least eighteen years old
Be in good standing with their regulatory college - only in the case of a professional service.
Maintain the required amount of liability and abuse liability insurance.
Have a valid CPR certificate.
Be capable of providing the service.
Pass a police vulnerable sector check.
Assisted Living Services support people who need a greater level of service than what home care can offer but without the medical monitoring 24/7 nursing supervision provided in long term care homes.
These services are most often, but not only, provided in settings such as supportive housing, apartment buildings or we're clients live close together. This enables care to be provided as a drop in or as needed bases instead of scheduled visits.
Services are targeted towards high risk seniors
Services include personal support services, 24 hours a day, 7 days and a week's digit and non schedule
We do not have policies and procedures portending specifically to people with memory loss and insulin issues.
The family managed home care program is an alternative method for home community care service delivery.
Take the time to read the letter.
To summarize Grace has an amazing doctor who also wants to make the world a better place. Grace has been, in fact, surrounded by the best of doctors.
Grace requires twenty four hour care. Grace has gone through great pains to ensure she does not end in nursing home, she did everything correctly. Grace even knew that Home Care was failng people like her and she chose a different path.
It says that Grace needs help with her instrumental activities of daily living , but not with her basic activities of daily living. Grace is a lady going through the normal aging process. Things like paying bills, cooking meals, medications.and planning a proper diet , all become too complicated.
I didn't want to do this, but after 4 years of trying to work with Grace's son, Edward, and having him drag my name through the mud, we have now found Grace to be in danger and it is time to speak up. Edward even had me investigated for financial abuse. Turn of play is fair play.
Here been quoted as saying that he has been having issues with me and suspects financial abuse.
Edward said , Mark has been quite aggressive over email on multiple locations with the family , asking for more money for him to care for her
He says there had been withdrawals from her bank account and he suspects Mark has her bank card. Now there are withdrawals, of $200 to $300 hundred, sometimes multiple times a day.
Edward is in touch with Bill Merrick who recommends a financial capacity assessment.
Edward says that if she is deemed financially incapable , he is happy to step in as power of attorney and his long term plan is to put her in a nursing home and basically not give Mark any financial benefits which he feels will make Mark ( the writer is Mark) leave eventually.
That statement, is financial elder abuse. Grace not only has the right to choose her care , but she has been vindicated in that she has been successful while the system has been failing others in her position. To put Grace Kwok in a nursing home after she solved her problems, against her will, because she can't independently manage her finances, is asinine. To steal or irresponsibly limit access to her money is financial elder abuse.
It's important to note that Edward signed off responsibility as POAP to me.
It goes on to say that even though another CT brain scan and was still nil acute , and that her metabolic workup was normal, that they went ahead and changed her medication again. The hospital put her on a diabetic diet and associated medications.
The public guardian entrusted office is now claiming that I do not have the power of attorney for personal care and that Grace does not have the money to address any of her current liabilities/debts. I am the POAPC and Grace also named me as the back-up POAP and Edward resigned as POAP..
The OPGT goes on to say that their licensed financial planners are working on the best financial approach for the client.
They are not including me, and they haven't applied for the family managed funding as per Grace's wishes.
The OPGT then states that if Grace needs some help to reach out to Home Care to get psw support. The OPGT says Home Care can contact the public guardian and trustees office about payment. The Public Guardian and Trustee's office should know that Home Care cannot help her, they do not have policies and procedures in place.
The OPGT's office is still waiting on the information regarding the client's weekly allowance.
Please have Grace call our office, on her own, to discuss.
The only thing that Grace has been found to be incapable of is understanding money. Why would they ask her to call and discuss money??
This is the line of credit balance. The line of credit is cash secured against a bond account and was valued at $77,000. We are being told it doesn't exist.
Grace Kwok's redeemable gic account had of value of $77,000.
The public and trustee is saying Grace is broke and the bank told me this account doesn't exist.
Grace also has a registered retirement income fund worth approximately $70,000.
Grace also owns a 2 bedroom condo on which she owes less than a hundred and fifty thousand dollars , and she is in the final ten years of her amortization. Current equity should be over five hundred thousand.
Grace also has a pension of almost $100.000. Grace had a long term financial plan which would have kept her living her same socio-economic experience. Grace had enough money and only wanted the home care funding in order to be able to, after she sold her condo, to gift Edward $100,000 and each of her two grandchildren $50,000 to further their education.
Grace had fifteen hundred and twenty three dollars and sixty one cents withdrawn from her bank account at the end of May. This meant she didn't have her allowance her grocery money and it wasn't the first time she didn't get her allowance. It's shown as a draft for investment proceeds.
In response to my email , asking , who withdrew the money from Graces account the public guardian and trustee responded that the bank sent it directly to them. That's a little disconcerting.
They go on to say that they are going to stop the payments , and this means that Grace will have the debt accruing at a horrendous rate, possibly even higher interest rates, and a cluster2435 of late charges..
The first thing they should have done was consolidated all of her high interest into a home equity line of credit.
They are spending enough on bad debt to pay for Grace's prescription diabetic massage therapy, her prescription diabetic nail therapy, her hearing aids and her supplements. The opgt knows they are not paying for her prescriptions and they know they are not managing her money properly.
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Mild non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy is an important condition to understand, especially in the context of diabetes prevention. By adopting holistic health methods, individuals can significantly reduce their risk of diabetic complications, including eye diseases. Furthermore, effective heart disease management is crucial for those with diabetes, as it can help mitigate the risks associated with this condition.
Her CT brain scans have remained stable, which is encouraging in the context of diabetes prevention and heart disease management. These results can also be supported by various holistic health methods.
Reversing Diabetic Retinopathy - March 3rd, 2025
"Very mild non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy."
"The importance of tight blood glucose control and its role in diabetes prevention is crucial for overall well-being. Additionally, adopting holistic health methods can significantly contribute to effective heart disease management."
CT Head Scan July 13, 2023, shows findings similar to those observed on the MRI scan conducted in 2018. In conjunction with this, a chest x-ray from 2023 indicates that, when compared to the previous study on March 27th, 2015, the heart and mediastinum appear unchanged, which is crucial for effective heart disease management. Additionally, the A1C level is recorded at 6.5%, emphasizing the importance of diabetes prevention strategies. No signs of type 3 diabetes or vascular dementia were found, supporting a focus on holistic health methods.
Grace has a companion and coach named Mark Hayden since approximately January 2022. Together, they focus on nutrition, proper medication timing and dosing, and emotional and physical support, which are essential elements in diabetes prevention and heart disease management. As a result of these holistic health methods, Grace's HbA1c has been under better control.
I have been collecting information and consulting with experts in Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry. Medically, her main diagnoses are diabetes and hypertension, both of which are currently under control. We are also exploring diabetes prevention strategies and heart disease management as part of a holistic health methods approach. TD Bank has been collecting late fees and exorbitant interest rates for the last three years while Grace can't access her own money.
Mark has significant 3-vessel artery disease, which highlights the importance of heart disease management. Incorporating holistic health methods can play a crucial role in diabetes prevention and overall cardiovascular health.
It was decided he would continue with his lifestyle approach, focusing on diabetes prevention and heart disease management. I believe he is on Aspirin 81mg daily, herbal medications, as well as Marijuana, all part of his holistic health methods.
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