Re: 'Taking physio to those in need' Article, The Guardian, March 13.
It is certainly commendable where Evelyn Brett is taking physio to Rwanda. Sad indeed that here in Ontario the Community Care Access Centres (CCAC) cannot provide more than three short (about an hour) physio sessions when a patient first comes home from the hospital, as the government does not provide any funding beyond that. My wife, through no fault of her own got sepsis while at a local hospital. Consequently she cannot speak, walk, or move her right arm and has to be lifted from bed to chair, dressed, etc.
CCAC provides one person, twice per week to bathe her, but as far as any occupational, physio or speech therapy, there is nothing.
I am on the threshold of 80...(doing the lifting) and aside from the two bathings per week, we are "on our own". So much for the future program of having less persons in old age or complex care residences.
Robert Maxwell