long-term care<\/a><\/span> homes in Ontario in the past six years, a health-care advocacy group said Monday.<\/p>\nThe Ontario Health Coalition released a report on violence in the homes, and the homicide numbers come from the coroner\u2019s office, which doesn\u2019t assign blame in a finding of homicide, but defines it as one person causing the death of another.<\/p>\n
Natalie Mehra, the coalition\u2019s executive director, said a resident with dementia may be aggressive toward another resident, resulting in their death, and while there is no criminal intent, it\u2019s a tragedy for all involved.<\/p>\n
The actual total of long-term care homicides is higher than the 29 found in the coroner\u2019s data, Mehra said, because they don\u2019t include the victims of nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer, who confessed to murdering eight patients, some of whom were killed in the report\u2019s time span.<\/p>\n
When considering those statistics in the context of Ontario having about 80,000 people living in long-term care homes, that\u2019s a homicide rate four times the city of Toronto, Mehra said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we dug a little more deeply we looked at other types of violence in long-term care, we found that the violence rates all around, not just homicides, were escalating, and that homicides are the extreme end of a continuum of violence that is escalating in the homes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Staff in the homes are also experiencing violence, Mehra said, pointing to government figures showing that lost time due to injury in long-term care is nearly double that of the health sector in general.<\/p>\n
The coalition released a report Monday, calling on the government to institute a minimum standard of care, guaranteeing at least four hours of hands-on nursing and personal support for each resident. The coalition calculates, using government data, that current levels of staffing are at 2.71 hours per resident per day.<\/p>\n
They are also calling for increased use of behavioural supports teams, which help long-term care homes manage individuals with aggressive behaviour due to dementia or other conditions. Half of Ontario\u2019s long-term care homes have no in-house behavioural supports resources, the coalition said.<\/p>\n
The coalition said part of what has led to the current situation is Ontario cutting chronic care and psychogeriatric care beds in hospitals and offloading the patients to long-term care homes.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOntario\u2019s long-term care homes have not been resourced to increase care levels commensurate with the offloading of significantly more complex patients,\u201d the report said. \u201cOur research shows that long-term care beds are funded at approximately one-third the rate of chronic\/complex care hospital beds.\u201d<\/p>\n
Candace Chartier, the CEO of the Ontario Long-Term Care Association, said a minimum standard of care is a \u201ccookie cutter\u201d approach that may not make sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot every resident in the province needs the same level of care,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
A spokeswoman for Health Minister Christine Elliott said the government was focused on building a strong and sustainable health-care system.<\/p>\n
\u201cOntarians in long-term care homes deserve to live in a safe and secure environment,\u201d said Hayley Chazan. \u201cWe will continue to listen to patients, families and frontline providers as we develop our long-term transformational health strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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