Aggressiveness when changing incontinence pads, not slowing or stopping when resident complained of pain … Forceful feeding by staff causing audible choking/aspiration. Patients observed crying for help with staff not responding (for 20 minutes to two hours) … Cockroaches and flies present. Rotten food smell. Patients being left in soiled diapers rather than being ambulated to toilets.”
These are just some of the abhorrent observations made by the Canadian military over the past month in Ontario long-term care facilities.
Their unbiased findings have laid bare a system that is failing some of the most vulnerable members of society: Our elderly.
The findings have exposed the shameful treatment that thousands of seniors have suffered — and continue to suffer — in long-term care homes across the province.
In the wake of this report, and of thousands of deaths in long-term care facilities due to COVID-19, seniors and their loved ones are launching class-action lawsuits in pursuit of justice.
Among these is a $40-million lawsuit against Southbridge Care and its Orchard Villa home, where of 308 residents, 225 contracted COVID-19, and 77 died.
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See Also:
(1) Canadian troops might be called to testify in lawsuits against long-term care homes
(2) MTO says ‘hands off tow trucks,’ claim enforcement officers
