DISS ME NOT In Canada

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Thu, 02/11/2010 - 20:36 — JanS

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This blog is dedicated to the clients from Dawson Court lodge that I met while working as a nurse's aide during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anne Geddes, George Maycock, Miss Herd, little Doris, and Miss Friday were some of the vibrant characters that spent the end of their lives as disabled citizens living in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

I was not a mental health client then but shortly after I was diagnosed with narcolepsy and given amphetamines.

Canada once had the reputation of being somewhat easier or more liberal to its citizens than the U.S. During the Vietnaam war draft dodgers fled conscription to reside in Canada. Many returned to the U.S. as soon as they could, claiming that, as Carol and Arnold Austad said to me that the sun shines much brighter in the U.S. I have not heard from them since they left Vancouver to get some kind of dispensation for having fled during the war, returning to the U.S. in about 1976. We did not speak of the cia among the group of people I knew then: We did not speak not; we spoke not of them.

In a way this blog will mention them not.

By the time I met Arnold and Carol, I was already a full fledged, unhinged lunatic, having been diagnosed in about 1973-4 as schizoaffective by an Irish psychiatrist living in Vancouver...Dr.Courtenay.

Firstly, I'd like to share with you my efforts after being inspired by the city of Edmonton: http://dissmenot.blogspot.com







Kickbacks and human rights abuses in old people's/disabled people's homes


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Thu, 02/11/2010 - 21:24 — JanS

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Vulnerable people need defenders of their rights. It is not unusual for families to become burdened with the extra stress and work involved in caring for an older person or handicapped person so since the creation of institutions, people have been dumped with idealistic hopes on the part of their families into classically run institutions. Working families in particular have found the demands of modern upwardly mobile lifestyles require someone to deal with breakdown of idealism through incarceration in homes for the mentally handicapped/(old term mentally retarded), homes for the aged/(old term: for the elderly), transition houses for those caught in addiction or youth rejected for rebellion.

Nursing homes and hospitals have a hard job but also are frequently human rights abusers involving themselves in kickbacks and cutting corners on cleanliness and neglecting client activities chosing instead to drug into a stupor. Jan

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Near Vancouver, at Woodlands School some handicapped people and their parents, are fighting a lawsuit about abuses there.

When working for SPARC of B.C. in the late 70s and early 80s, I worked on Problem Drinking in the Elderly, a paper about drinking in the downtown eastside DTES. Another project I worked on studied legislation for Longterm care in the Elderly. I wrote about rights for old people in institutions and homes. When I worked for the B.C. Association for the Mentally Handicapped, I worked for the Woodlands parents' group where I met Mildred DeHaan one of the parents struggling to sue Woodlands.

Though one of the most popular kickbacks has always been to food distributers/catering, and funeral parlors, I believe mental health clients are most plagued by kickbacks to drug companies and to researchers, most often doing clandestine research for business and the military.