Comments for ehwhat.ca http://www.ehwhat.ca common sense approach to disability Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:21:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Your CCAC Story by Angie http://www.ehwhat.ca/?p=449&cpage=1#comment-12974 Angie Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:21:01 +0000 http://www.ehwhat.ca/?p=449#comment-12974 Don't get me 'started' with CCAC, grrrrrrrrr especially their idealisms pertaining to personal care (definition & task times!) oh & who gets the contract! Don’t get me ‘started’ with CCAC, grrrrrrrrr especially their idealisms pertaining to personal care (definition & task times!) oh & who gets the contract!

]]> Comment on Your CCAC Story by Liana http://www.ehwhat.ca/?p=449&cpage=1#comment-12972 Liana Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:17:37 +0000 http://www.ehwhat.ca/?p=449#comment-12972 I've been extremely polite and professional with their managers....you know, when your loved one's life is in someone else's hands....but I am getting tired of every single day phoning the nurse or assistant or...to get them to do their job...every single day they are over 2 hours late from the time they are supposed to be there...and often, just don't show up UNLESS I phone....so as much as I'd love to have sympathy for the individuals, I am not happy with the lack of professional conduct and treatment of patients (belittle/offend, etc) I've been advocating they hire me! lol...seriously though, I have had 2 family members who used the services of CCAC and the amount of garbage ....Jerry, you go through with this and feel free to contact me in privi...between family and several friends, I 've only witnessed stress in their lives (and mine for having to fight on their behalf)... I’ve been extremely polite and professional with their managers….you know, when your loved one’s life is in someone else’s hands….but I am getting tired of every single day phoning the nurse or assistant or…to get them to do their job…every single day they are over 2 hours late from the time they are supposed to be there…and often, just don’t show up UNLESS I phone….so as much as I’d love to have sympathy for the individuals, I am not happy with the lack of professional conduct and treatment of patients (belittle/offend, etc)

I’ve been advocating they hire me! lol…seriously though, I have had 2 family members who used the services of CCAC and the amount of garbage ….Jerry, you go through with this and feel free to contact me in privi…between family and several friends, I ‘ve only witnessed stress in their lives (and mine for having to fight on their behalf)…

]]> Comment on Healthcare – death by 1000 cuts! by Eva Marsh http://www.ehwhat.ca/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-11999 Eva Marsh Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:11:53 +0000 http://ehwhat.ca/?p=1#comment-11999 In caring for a relative affected by a stroke I found the CCAC to be cumbersome, time-consuming, insulting and useless! I live in the country west of Hamilton centre. Workers sent from Grimsby and Stoney Creek got lost!! and local health care personnel were sent to the far EAST end of the city. Hopeless management. Has anything changed? Eva In caring for a relative affected by a stroke I found the CCAC to be cumbersome, time-consuming, insulting and useless!
I live in the country west of Hamilton centre. Workers sent from Grimsby and Stoney Creek got lost!! and local health care personnel were sent to the far EAST end of the city.
Hopeless management. Has anything changed?
Eva

]]> Comment on Healthcare – death by 1000 cuts! by Judith http://www.ehwhat.ca/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-11909 Judith Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:38:05 +0000 http://ehwhat.ca/?p=1#comment-11909 Yes, I have a husband who is in Renal Failure and has a life threatening disease and the CCAC came to assess him and said that they dont think I will need the rental bath bench any longer since he is palliative they want to return it, and they wont bother sending any PSW's out to try to bath or shower him, his hair has not been washed for 3 weeks. I said no, I want him showered once a week even if he gets put in a wheelchair permanently they can still do it. I was told there were no more hours available for that, nor any hours available for respite, they are all gone in this new budget. Veterans Affairs has offered me 1 hour a week for respite, and I have had 3 back injuries as a nurse and with my husband's stroke in 2009, his left side is still weakened and he can not get up out of bed or a chair by himself, the VAC said that there are many soldiers on the rolls now and the money has to go around. I am getting it from every corner , but we will continue to dig in our heels and stand our ground for care of all kinds. Judith Yes, I have a husband who is in Renal Failure and has a life threatening disease and the CCAC came to assess him and said that they dont think I will need the rental bath bench any longer since he is palliative they want to return it, and they wont bother sending any PSW’s out to try to bath or shower him, his hair has not been washed for 3 weeks. I said no, I want him showered once a week even if he gets put in a wheelchair permanently they can still do it.
I was told there were no more hours available for that, nor any hours available for respite, they are all gone in this new budget.
Veterans Affairs has offered me 1 hour a week for respite, and I have had 3 back injuries as a nurse and with my husband’s stroke in 2009, his left side is still weakened and he can not get up out of bed or a chair by himself, the VAC said that there are many soldiers on the rolls now and the money has to go around. I am getting it from every corner , but we will continue to dig in our heels and stand our ground for care of all kinds.
Judith

]]> Comment on Healthcare – death by 1000 cuts! by Louise http://www.ehwhat.ca/?p=1&cpage=1#comment-11897 Louise Fri, 06 Aug 2010 21:31:28 +0000 http://ehwhat.ca/?p=1#comment-11897 Yes, the CCAC tried to change things for me too. I see a nurse once a month and they wanted me to start taking a bus to their office to get the procedure done. I'm already paying $194.75 per month for an Access Bus; something that is next to impossible to do when your sole source of income is ODSP, so I dug in my heels and said I refuse. I said it is not my job to absorb the extra costs of coming to you just because the CCAC is running into a budgetary shortfall. If the province can afford to pay, (I think it is),$26 million dollars to manage the LHIN's, they can afford to let me keep the $4.50 per 2-way trip to their office to get a once monthly health care procedure done. (here is the link to the Province's Public accounts: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/paccts/2009/ Thankfully they listened to my logic and the nurse will continue to come to my home. Yes, the CCAC tried to change things for me too. I see a nurse once a month and they wanted me to start taking a bus to their office to get the procedure done.

I’m already paying $194.75 per month for an Access Bus; something that is next to impossible to do when your sole source of income is ODSP, so I dug in my heels and said I refuse.

I said it is not my job to absorb the extra costs of coming to you just because the CCAC is running into a budgetary shortfall.

If the province can afford to pay, (I think it is),$26 million dollars to manage the LHIN’s, they can afford to let me keep the $4.50 per 2-way trip to their office to get a once monthly health care procedure done. (here is the link to the Province’s Public accounts: http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/budget/paccts/2009/

Thankfully they listened to my logic and the nurse will continue to come to my home.

]]> Comment on Tax Tips by Cathy O'Connor http://www.ehwhat.ca/?page_id=15&cpage=1#comment-11890 Cathy O'Connor Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:02:42 +0000 http://ehwhat.ca/?page_id=15#comment-11890 You can also claim your service dog's expenses as a medical expense. This includes vet bills and dog food. Keep records though. You can also claim your service dog’s expenses as a medical expense. This includes vet bills and dog food. Keep records though.

]]> Comment on Tax Tips by accessiblebob http://www.ehwhat.ca/?page_id=15&cpage=1#comment-4 accessiblebob Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:29:46 +0000 http://ehwhat.ca/?page_id=15#comment-4 Adding accessible space to an existing home? We discovered by challenging a revised assessment for realty tax, that the assessment on the renovated portion is exempt from consideration for municipal taxes. Ex. total value $235,000.00 value of renovations = $65,000.00 = assessment for realty tax of $170,000.00. Apparently this continues as long as the disabled person the space was created for lives in it. Adding accessible space to an existing home?
We discovered by challenging a revised assessment for realty tax, that the assessment on the renovated portion is exempt from consideration for municipal taxes.
Ex. total value $235,000.00 value of renovations = $65,000.00 = assessment for realty tax of $170,000.00.
Apparently this continues as long as the disabled person the space was created for lives in it.

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