The Westerner for November 8, 2010
Meeting: held at Grandview Extended Care Centre, the Grandview liaison Carolyn and the new Administrator, Maureen Flynn, welcomed us; then - chair, Mike Ryan; music, Jerome; grace, Chris
Christmas Function : November 27 @ Highlands Golf Club; 6:00 cocktails, 7:00 dinner; $25 each;call Bob Lamoureux if you plan to attend
Club Assembly: November 15, please attend to voted on bylaw and other changes
CleanScene: fund raiser high tea, November 24, call Mike Ryan if you can attend
Celebrating 50 Years of Rotary Curling The 50th District 5360/5370 Rotary Curling Bonspiel will be held in Lacombe from February 17th to 20th, 2011. 48 Teams will be able to participate. Marc Kennedy, from our Olympic Championship Team will be a guest speaker. He will bring his Gold Medal and will pose for photos. For updated information, go to www.rotarycurling.ca
Guest Speaker: Capital Care C E O Iris Neuman was introduced by and thanked by Mike Ryan. Iris has been with Capital Care for 13 years, 10 as administrator of facilities including 4 years at Grandview.
What was known as long term care is now known as continuing care and over 10% of people over the age of 65 need this type of care. Some residents are younger but most are seniors. An assessment is used to determine if a person needs help and the assessment can be performed by either a home care nurse or the personal physician. Publicly funded help is available either at your home (home care) or in a facility (includes home care as well as physically living at the care centre).
In home care at your house, a facilitator comes to your home to provide support. The dollars are capped and if you exceed, the care needed cannot be provided at home. You would be moved to a care centre.
Supportive living provides meals, light house keeping, usually in a facility, possibly at your home. The resident pays room and board. Home care comes in to provide medical support for which you may pay a portion of the costs.
Continuing care is facility living where the resident needs a higher level of care - almost constant care - again the resident pays room and board. There are more hours of care per day - the resident receives 3.6 hours in a 24 hour period which includes rehab and help in dressing as well as medical.
Faciltiy owners fall under public, voluntary or private. Private is for profit, voluntary is not for profit, public is Capital Care which is wholly owned by Alberta Health Services. All owner types are funded by Alberta Health Services at the same funding level.
Capital Care is supportive with 1,400 residents and 300 community (home supported) patients and is the largest owner group in Canada. It covers Edmonton and Sherwood Park. They are pursuing a Person Centered Care philosophy.
The patient's portion of Supportive (home care) services cost is between $1,300 and $1,700 per month. Depending on whether the room in the facility is private, shared (2 per room) or ward (4 or 6 per room), and the amount of personal individual care needed, the cost is between $2,500 and $5,000 per month. Thus a resident in a care facility needing a lot of personal care could cost $6,700 per month.