Soaring prices blamed for demise

By CHRIS LLOYD

Eight people ranging
in age to over 90 were
last week given five
days’ notice to leave
the West Vancouver
care home that had
been home to them for
several years, when the
owner announced she
had sold the property.

And even the health
authorities who have been
scurrying to find alternative
accommodation on the
North Shore for the Dun-
darave Rest Home residents
say the situation is a tragic
example of how real estate
prices are escalating so
much faster than govern-
ment in-care allowances.

Mavis Stanfield, in charge
of long-term care on the
North Shore, has told the
News: “This is. a problem
where real estate values are
escalating to such a point
that it is no longer a viable
Proposition to run a care
home.”

Vera Kujawa, who has
owned and operated the
eight bedroom Dundarave
home for the past six months
says the $15.35 per patient
daily allowance she is paid
barely covers the cost of
feeding the patients and
completely ignores the 24-
hour attention she has to

give, makes it impossible for
‘her to hire assistance and
does not contribute in any
way to her purchase of the
house.

Stanfield agrees:
current rate it is pretty
difficult to deal with
financing property. I would
venture to say she is-not
seeing any return on her
invested dollar.”

“On the

She adds that the
provincial government is
currently looking at

reviewing the home care
allowance according to
budgets of specific homes.

TOO LATE

But any changes are at
least five months away and
Kujawa decided that it’s
already long past the point
where she can continue
running the home on the
present basis. Through
managing single-handedly,
she says, her health is
already suffering and so she
has sold it.

However, the sale was so
quick that the residents had
to be out for the new owners
of the home on the 2500
block Marine Drive to
assume occupancy Friday.

And with the health
department not even being
informed. of the situation
until last Monday, this left
them just five days to find
alternative accommodation
for the residents of the
home.

N. Van house fire

A fire which began in a
children’s bedroom. ex-
tensively damaged a North

Vancouver home Wed-
nesday.

A North Vancouver
Distnct Fire Department

spokesman said the fire, at

901 Seymour Boulevard was
reported at 12:56 p.m.

He said the fire started in
one upstairs bedroom and
spread to the other bedroom
before fire fighters got it
under control.

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Stanfield says other care
homes on the North Shore
have rallied, by offering alter-
native accommodation for
the Dundarave residents,
although she acknowledges
that the new homes may not
have been what the residents
would have chosen.

‘INSENSITIVE’

Of Kujawa's action, she
comments: “It is treating
elderly people in a very
insensitive manner.

“I don’t care how angry
she wants to get with me
over the rates but the people
who are suffering are the
elderly people we are having
to relocate. Their reaction is

one of distress at being given

such a short period of time
(to leave).”

“It makes a_ difficult
situation even more difficult
and no matter what the
problems they could have
been handled in a more
sensitive way.”

Kujawa is also unhappy
about the situation, saying
she successfully ran a care
home in Victoria for seven
years. She says she came to
West Van after being told
there was a crying need for
such homes in the Van-
couver area.

“But rest homes are going
out of business all over
Vancouver,” she says.

She also regrets the
residents having to move
out.

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“But I am subsidising them
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“I couldn't sell this place
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not even get a mortgage
from its income.”

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object lesson I am advising
Victoria that this is the
situation here (with real
estate values) and that we
are perhaps more affected
here than in other areas.

“There is no way she could
sell that facility to another
person even wishing to
Operate it because there is
no way it could be done with

the current property market
prices.”

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