C2 - Sunday, November I1, 1984 - North Shore News

RESPITE worker Bernice Fike from North Shore Home

Support Services sits and plays

the piano with 94-year-old Nora Meredith, who enjoys the pastime and the company.

Easing the burden

From page C1

provides services in the
home, the Margaret Fulton
Centre provides a daycare
for patients to visit and so-
ciahze. This allows family
members to stay at home
and relax, without having to
leave the house if they need
a break

The adult daycare pro
vides a supervised program
with group activities for the
elderly or chronically all,
says Margaret Kelly, director
of the Margaret Fulton Cen
tre ‘“‘There are nurses and
qualified statf who monitor
the patients’ health, and
administer prescriphions,-
she says “' The first thing we
do is make the clents feel
secure, comfortable and
contident They participate
in playing cards, singing,
dancing, walking, cxcroisiag
inahking crafts, talking,
visiting and reading There's
no structured program

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ties 0 Rely Says “The
caregiver bas the day off,
and the person at the centre
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Short-stay beds can be o¢
cupied for up to a month. If
a family is going away on
holidays or if a caregiver has
planned elective surgery, the
beds can be pre-booked

Whereas) respite services
through Home Support and
Margaret Fulton daycare are
partially subsidized for pa
tients who quality and are
available to be bought: pri
vately for patients who are
not chron, the short stay
beds are strictly lmuited to
the chronically ill

Short stay beds are
available in intermediate
care through residential care
facihties. and non am

Schools!

bulatory care through Lions
Gate Hospital’s extended
care unit, Evergreen House.

Says Standfield: “It saves
on costs by keeping patients
out of long term facilities.
By prolonging the stav at
home, it’s more cost effec-
tive. There are people out
there looking after chronical-
ly all people, and we want
them to know services are
available and accessible All
it takes 1s a phone call We
are hereto help °’

For further information,
call Long Term Care, 986
TIL1, North Shore Home
Support Services Society,
984.981) and Margaret
Fulton Centre, 980 6116

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