A8 - Wednesday, Jannary 26, 1983 - North Shore News

Community

care needed _ for aged

Dear Editor: I would like to share some information on the recent article which appeared in the North Shore News entitled “Lions Gate Hospital feels the pinch of aging on the North Shore”. Additionally to Statements of

the hospital

Administrator John Bor- thwick, North Shore residents should be aware that the provincially funded Home Care and Long Term Care provide care in the community for many people who would have to be in- stitutionalized due to the

Also, professiona! staff and homemakers are provided at home by Home Care and Long Term Care to those who must be discharged early from Lions Gate Hospital due to the bed closure problem.

I agree that the hospital has coped admirably with its

cutback problem and I strongly endorse Mr. Borthwick’s observation that the community must regard and “deal with its attitude towards our aging population” if we do not wish to jam our institutions and facilities to the point where

price tag. Community care (that is, care in the home) is much less expensive than either acute care hospital beds or institutional care for the aged, but it does require family commitment. Jeanette Roop

Home Care Coordinator

physical factors of aging.

we can no longer pay the N.Shore Health Board

Everyday you save 10% to $0% OFF the average

re r retail price of comparable products sold elsewhere.

save unto

LGH board ‘neglects society

Dear Editor: a Lions Gat a

seriously neglects the

members of the Lions Gate

Hospital Saciety.

For some years I have been a member in good standing of the Society. For three years up to and in- cluding 1982 I was a director of the Society, having been regularly elected at the AGM in 1979. At the AGM in September, 1982 I did not seek reelection to the Board, but | paid my dues and voted at the meeting.

After September I wanted to keep in touch with progress and developmearts at the hospital. On 30 September, 1982 I wrote a letter to Mr. Borthwick. requesting to be kept “in touch with hospital developments by placing me on the mailing list’ for minutes of Board monthly meetings, medical reports, and other matters which a member of the Hospital Society might be entutled to.” | further requested information “on actions and correspondence that the Board and Administration see fit to follow on those three motions that | put forward, and were regularly passed at the Annual Meeting of the Hospital Society held on 1 September 1982.”

On October 22.) Mr Borthwick expressed regre! that the “minutes of Board monthly meetings and medical reports according to the hospital by laws are not to be sent out to members ol the Soctety I waited to get some durecton from the

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