British Columbia Legislature 42nd Parliament, 3rd Session (2022) Statements, 29 Mar 2022

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From YouTube: MARCH 29 2022 Statements Ellis Ross

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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament

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Member first kinah, the kinema general hospital foundation, has been working hard in their efforts to build the dementia care home in kitimat they're continuing with their mandate to raise money for the dementia care village. The kid med valley, housing society will oversee the design and construction of the bench. The dementia care home and, as the body will provide governance for for the facility.

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Once it's operational, the heiser nation is represented on the board, along with kitimat community services, society, which will manage the facility when it's up and running, they have had setbacks, but are encouraged by the community private sector and the government's interest to date.

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The meetings with various groups to share plans and get feedback about the project have been positive and the community response has been very enthusiastic.

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It's obvious that many families have been touched by dementia and that they are aware that this important facility will not only provide appropriate care for people with dementia, but will result in more bids becoming available at mountain view, lodge and fewer acute care beds being occupied by seniors waiting for long-term care care beds.

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The concept under which this quality of this facility will operate is termed a quality of life model. Most of us are familiar with risk aversion. Quality life means some reasonable risk is acceptable. It improves the quality of life.

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The overall objective is to have this facility to be as much a home to the people who live there as humanly possible, because leaving one's home to move into an institution is always traumatic in a host of different ways and finding strategies to make life meaningful and engaging is important to all of us and is the goal of kim at dementia care village.

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All of this is designed to avoid the confusion. That often is a part of the dementia resident's life and experience, because dementia is cruel and unrelenting and there are no effective ways to prevent, cure or slow its progression.

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I ask that this house look at and support the efforts and initiatives all across bc that are striving for facilities that make a life more less stressful, for those afflicted afflicted with dementia and for their families. Thank you, mr speaker.